Model of Organic Waste Elimination in Household Participated by The Community Rong-Kho Subdistrict, Wang Nuea District Lampang Province

Abstract

            The objective of this paper was to explored the way for organic waste elimination by community participation in Rong-Kho Subdistrict, Wang Nuea District, Lampang Province. Data collection used an in-depth interview of community’s leader and focus group discussion from seventeen prototype households which are selected from seventeen villages.

            The results showed that the organic waste elimination model in Rong-Kho community by using earthworms can be divided into four phases: 1) knowledge creation 2) trying out by household prototype 3) monitoring and evaluation and 4) lessons learned. After the model was operated, the output of the lesson learned for figuring out the optimization disposal organic waste method in households is comprised of four formats. Firstly, the agricultural waste was disposed by making fermented water such as seven-fruits fermented, banana fermented and bio-fermented water. Secondly, the curry waste was eliminated by tank pit with grille called “the miracle curry tank pit of Rong-Kho”. Thirdly, food waste were removed by feed animals and landfill bio-fertilized. Finally, fruit and vegetable waste are disposed of by feed earthworms and create the learning point and establish the racing earthworm network for eliminating organic waste called “earthworms save the world”.