Community composting project sees success at Mocha, Friendship

Rufus Lewis, local composting expert and former head of the Solid Waste Management Department, teaching residents of Mocha/ Arcadia how to compost organic waste

The Clean Green Guyana Campaign has said that its soil composting initiative is gaining momentum and residents of Mocha Arcadia and the Marfriends Cooperative Society in Friendship were recently able to reap the rewards of their labour under the community composting project.

The project is being conducted by the Clean Green Guyana Campaign as part of the Community Partici-pation and Public Aware-ness Programme being administered by the Ministry of Local Govern-ment and Regional Deve-lopment, funded by the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank, a press release from Guyenterprise said.

According to the release, “Composting may be described as nature’s way of recycling. It is a process in which organic waste, or waste derived from