Description
This project seeks to disseminate commonly used recycling techniques of organic waste, and prevent waste transportation and combustion as well as to foster organic farming on the household level. Inhabitants, teachers and students of primary school, nursery-school teachers and children of kinder-gartens, municipalities of the region, as well as interested persons in the organic farming are addressed in the frame of a compost program, for instance by the means of on-site presentations on using compost equipment. Beside compost activities a gardening program is launched in the local primary schools and kindergartens, while an organic farm is to be set up in Csömör. The whole program is advertised with different brochures and community marketing possibilities.
Summary of project results
The project addressed the shortcomings of the household waste treatment practices in Csömör village. In order to promote public awareness on the importance of household composting as well as to foster its introduction a multi-component campaign was carried out on the local level by the means of regularly publishing relevant information in the local newspaper, participation at local festivals with an info desk, publishing 5 booklets on different composting techniques and posting information posters in the public spaces. The promoter was running a phone information line by which more than 200 families were reached, out of which 52 were supported not only with information but also with composting frames. Composting was introduced to the local educational institutions (one primary school and 2 kindergartens), and a community garden was set up for demonstration purposes. As an ultimate result the project promoter association has managed to set up a good cooperation both with the local municipality as well as the community, and to make composting more widespread that adds to the overall level of local sustainability.
Summary of bilateral results