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3. Key Environmental Issues and Demonstration Projects

City
Priority Issues
Demonstration Projects
Solid waste management

- Green Star Homes Project
- Home composting
- Sorting at source and recycling

Improvement of water and sanitation facilities
Traffic and air quality
Drainage and flood control
Kotte
Solid waste management
- Home Composting Bin Project
- Biogas Unit - Vajira Sri Children`s Home
- Waste collection and Sorting center at Beddegana
Sewerage disposal and sanitation
- Sewerage Treatment Plant at Skanda Devala Place
Solid waste management and urban greening
- Waste collectionand sorting center at Badowita
- Introduction of household compost bin

Brief Description of Demo Projects

The Environmental Planning and Management approach introduced through the project was instrumental in helping the three municipalities to test innovative small-scale demonstration projects that formed parts of their strategies to strengthen service-delivery regarding solid waste collection, water supplies for low income “tenement” settlements, as well as vector control.

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