No.17 Oct, 2015

■ Japan Environmental Sanitation Center

JESC NEWSNo.17Oct, 2015

Report of JESC Activities"The 7th 3R Conference for Asian Local Governments" was held successfully,
and the 8th conference will be held on November 5th, 2015 at Yokkaichi
JESC has successfully organized the "3R

share the knowledge and experience. About

Conference for Asian Local Governments"

120 people participated in the conference assince 2008. In the past conferences variousthe audience.

local governments from Asia have shared theirwas concluded as "Chiba Declaration".

3R implementation status and their confirmed

Theachievements.

Governments is going to be held in Yokkaichi

The 7th 3R Conference for Asian Local

City, on November 5th , 2015. More detail

Governments was held on November 13th

information is announced in our website. We are2015, at Chiba city.

looking forward to seeing you soon at the next

JESC has chosen "3R andInfrastructure Development" and "3R and Low

8th3R

The result of the conference
ConferenceforAsianLocal

conference !!

Carbon" as the theme in the Conference.

(Takashi MIYAGAWA)

5 Asian Local Governments including Yangon
city (Myanmar), Quezon City (Philippines),
Rayong State (Thailand) , Ho Chi Minh City(Vietnam) , Bandung City (Indonesia) and 5
Local Governments from Japan including
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Hamamatsu
City (Japan), Chiba City (Japan), Kita Kyusyu
City (Japan), Osaka City (Japan),Kawasaki

City (Japan) took part in the conference toWorkshop on "Multilayer 3R Partnerships and Cooperation among Asia-Pacific Cities"
was held on August 16th, 2015 at Male, Maldives"6th Regional 3R Forum in Asia and Pacific"- This Workshop aims to follow-up and deepen

was held at Male in Maldives. on August 16-19,

the results of the discussion conducted at "The2015. And as a side-event of the 3R Forum,

forum on Multilayer 3R Partnerships and"Multilayer 3R Partnerships and Cooperation

Cooperation among Asia-Pacific Cities" whichamong Asia-Pacific Cities " and "International

was held on November 2014 at Chiba City,

3R Exhibition" was also held.

Japan.

1. Outline of "Workshop on Multilayer 3R- Around 40 persons from 4 local governments

Partnerships

from Asian countries, 3 local governments fromand

Asia-Pacific Cities"

Cooperation

among

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■ Japan Environmental Sanitation CenterandJapan, and 3 Japanese firms related toDevelopment Institute, Private company and3R business, participated in the workshop.

NGOs from 33 countries.

- Main programme is "Summary of the results- Main programme is " 7 kinds of Plenaryof the discussion conducted at the forum inSessions", " Parallel Roundtable with 52014", "Presentation on 3R policy in each city"

topics", "Country Presentations from eachand "Group Discussion to promote Multilayercountry" . And in the close session, "Chair'spartnerships under the city-city cooperation"

Summary" was adopted.

(Reference)- One of the characteristic of 6th Forum is

Outline of "6th Regional 3R

Forum in Aisa and Pacific"

newly taking up a topic for considering- More than 300 participants from Central

how environment, tourism and economy

government, Local government, Research &should be integrated.
(Shigenobu OBAYASHI)

JESC conducted MOE Japan training courses in 2014, “Promoting technical transfer
in the field of Waste Recycling Industry”
Since FY 2011, Ministry of the Environment
Japan (MOEJ) has been implementing “TheProject for Supporting the Incubation of Firms
in the Field of Venous Industry and Promoting
the Spread of Japanese Waste Managementand Recycling Technologies Overseas”
As the title shows, this project aims to promotetechnical transfer in the field of Venous
Industry to advance 3R and environmental

overseas development of Japanese Venous
Industry by inviting counterpart and deepen
theirunderstandingofJapanesewastemanagement policy, system and technologies.
We hope such as Japanese technology take rootto other countries and can be useful for promoting
environmental measuresaround the world.
(Kana Nakamura)measures in global scale.
Training courses in Japan aims to promote

JESC conducted three JICA training courses in 2014
We have implemented three JICA training

We hope participants could improve theircourses contracted by JICA, having fifty -fiverespective situation utilizing knowledge andparticipants from twenty five countries.

information obtained in the training and keep

The courses aregood memories about

Waste

Management"Comprehensive Solid(A)"(Aug.20-Sep

Japan.

26,2014), "Water Environmental Monitoring’"

We are looking forward(Sep.16-Oct.17,2014), and "Capacity Building

to seeing participants

toward Air Quality Management" (Oct.6-Nov.6,

againsoon.

(Kana Nakamura)2014).

Activities of Japan Sanitation Consortium (JSC)
Japan Sanitation Consortium was established

Environmentalin June 2009 as the knowledge hub forJapan Education Center of Environmental

Asia-PacificWaterForum(APWF)

for

Sanitation

Sanitation(JECES),

CenterSewerage(JESC),
Businesssanitation.

Management Center (SBMC), Japan Sewage

JSC member of five organizations are Japan

Works Association (JSWA) and Japan Sewage②

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■ Japan Environmental Sanitation Center
Works Agency (JS).

sharing】

JSC conducts the activities such as Networking,-Participated the sewage treatment-relatedInformation

workshops for Southeastern Asia (Aprilgathering,

Knowledgedissemination and Information sharing, and2015)

Support to international donor organizations

UN-HABITAT(ADB,- Provided the sessions for the conference of 7 thJICA,

UN-HABITAT,UNICEF,etc.)

WORLD

which

BANK,

supporthostedby

UN-ESCAP

andtheWorld Water Forum 2015 (April 2015, Rep. ofcountries of the Asia-Pacific region for theKorea)【Support to international donor organizations】

purpose of their improvement of sanitaryconditions. The activities of JSC are as follows:【Networking / Information gathering】

Implemented

Establish and operate an information

thenetwork on sanitation in collaboration withTechnology (2014–2015) by consigned businessinternational donor organizations.

contract with ADB, and also conducted
Improvement Technology for On-site Sludge
Management Program in India (2014–2015).
（Akira MORITA）- Participated the Conference of Executive
Council, Asia-Pacific Water Forum (10 June2015, Singapore)

Local

CapacityDevelopment

Technology Support Program with a focus on
introductionofJapaneseAdvanced- Conducted the Information Exchange meetingwith BILL & MELINDA GATES foundation(June 2015, Japan)【 Knowledge dissemination and information

Report from JICA training participant ＜Mr. Nimal Premathilaka , Balangoda - Sri Lanka＞
Comprehensive solid waste management success stories in Balangoda urban council - Sri Lanka
Waste management is one of
the serious problems fordevelopment country such as
Sri Lanka. Waste as we allknow is not useless. It ismostly made of things wehave used, but don't finduseful anymore.
So wethrow it away. But did you
know that waste can also bereused in beneficial way?
The Balangoda Urban Council, the oldest one
in the Sabaragamuwa province, Rathnapura
District in Sri Lanka has showed how to makeprofit business from so-called useless waste
through a garbage management project. The
main objectives of the present administrationof the urban council is to build a green andenvironmental -friendly city by 2020 bymanaging waste efficiently.
The Urban Council was established in 1939

and first mayor was Bans Rathwaththa Disawe,
the father of the world's first lady Prime
Minister Sirimawo Bandaranayaka. In 1998,
the Urban Council realized that daily amountof waste ruins beauty of the city, and that thisis the all due to bad behavior of human beings.
The present mayor of Nimal Gamini erasingha
was there as the newly elected mayor 1998 andthe garbage management project was rainchild
After studying the situation, a well-organized
waste management project was established in2000 at Bankiyawaththa, a village situated 2
Km far away near Balangoda city. Before
staring this project, the Council was doing open
dumping in the city center and open burning of
this waste.
The decaying waste has been used to makecompost fertilizer while non-decaying has been
recycled to make using the latest technology.
They sell the product and make profit. Garbage
is first brought into the compost yard. Next, it③

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■ Japan Environmental Sanitation Centeris separated in decaying and non-decaying
matters. About 65 - 70 % of the garbage is madeof bio-degradable matters. 20 - 25%
non-degradable goods and 10 - 15% land filling
wastes.
To make compost using decaying garbage, thegarbage waste is stocked in piles (length 12',wide 5' and height 7') according to the "openwindrow system" for about six weeks. This six
weeks’ supply of nitrogen, oxygen, temperature
control and moisture control are very
importance. After six weeks the piles are turnin to maturation period of 2 weeks. After 2weeks the compost piles allowed to dry so thatthe moisture is reduce to 8% and then the final
product comes after screening. The Final
product is compost fertilizer and next going toenrich quality of the product. How to enrich isadding half burning rice husk, rock phosphate,treated night soil, then the compost is selling in
the market.
Here is the selling and production amount last
few years:

YearProduction (Kg.)
Income ($)
2010
465,400
15,573
2011
565,420
22,888
2012
485,340
14,4282013
428,300
26,365
2014
410,260
25,246Meanwhile the Urban Council has establisheda recyclable waste buying center in the area tomake sure the people also participated anamount of 100$ is issued from account of thewaste management center is open every day ofthe week. This center mainly focuses toimplement 3R concept of the people. There is a
price list displayed where the prices for thewaste are clearly mentioned. The recyclable
goods brought by the citizens are collected.
Even used tires are accepted. The collected
paper, polythene, plastic, metal, glass andcardboard are sold to the local buyers at areasonable price. The income is used to pay theovertime allowance, electricity bills of theurban council and to take all the employees of
the urban council on an outing once a year.
This is also used as a fund to give loans to theemployees.
(Nimal Premathilaka , Balangoda - Sri Lanka)

Editor’s Comment
My name is Shigenobu Obayashi, the Directorof International Cooperation & Business
Department which was newly organized inApril 2014
According to the increase of international
cooperation demand in the environment andsanitation fields, the activities of ourdepartment have been expanding . I hopethat JESC News will provide the informationon our recent activities as well as your (=JESCtraining graduates) recent activities.
We are very happy if we could support yourwork by close communication through thisnews.
(Shigenobu OBAYASH)JESC NEWS No.17 / October, 2015
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Publisher: Hideki MINAMIKAWA
Editor: Shigenobu OBAYASHI
Staff: T. MIYAGAWA, S. HAYAMI,
H. TAKIZAWA, K. NAKAMURA
Published by: Japan Environmental
Sanitation Center (JESC)

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