? The project will help with policy implementation; the law enforces on used oil pollution have been facing limitations as the public did not have any facilities to dispose their oil. The availability of such facilities will help make it easier for the law enforcers.
? The public awareness carried out have enlightened the people and they will be no excuses for improper disposal and illegal uses.
? Used oil is one of the ingredients that could be used for bio-fuel, the government has looked into ways of producing such and the used oil collected in these tanks and many others could help in the long run.
Athough used oil handlers are mostly males as workshop managers, mechanics, machine operators and farmers the issue of used oil is gender indiscriminate. Since the effects of oil affect all, this project will target both males and females to educate and empower.
Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods
The project promotes a clean environment free from used oil pollution; this will therefore promote sustainable livelihoods among communities. A clean environment will mean a healthy community or nation. The nation will enjoy water free from used oil pollution and clean soils that will enable fruitful farming for sustenance.
Capacity - Building Component
The project will capacitate the local communities through the public education that will be conducted during commissioning of the receptacles. The public education shall be composed of awareness on the environmental and health effects of used oil and its proper disposal. Demonstrations on proper handling and disposal of used oil shall be conducted. This will be to capacitate the communities on the practicality of the matter.
Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment
The project will ensure to achieve promotion of public awareness of global environment by the kgotla meetings, promotional activities and commissioning of receptacles. The fact that pollution occuring at the beginning or in the middle of the river affects those at the receiving end shall be stressed. Printed materials will also be used to promote public awareness of global environment.
Notable Community Participation
The proposed depository sites are solely for the benefit of the communities. In effect there are two kinds of tanks. The former kind is supplied to the customers who buy lubricants through formalised tenders from the lubricant supplier. The latter, on the other hand, are the ones that are solely for community use and are the ones to be funded under this project. In effect, the project wants to encourage community participation in the up keeping of their environment.
Project sustainability
The tanks were installed with partnership from the local authorities and their maintenance lies with them. The trust through its collectors will facilitate the collection. The trust will also help where necessary with cleaning of spillages. The trust is run from a levy contribution by the oil companies.
In future with more collectors coming aboard, the trust will charge a minimum fee to the collectors. The funds collected will be used to maintain the tanks.
Planning non gef grant
The trust is looking at different avenues to fund the scaling up project. There is nothing concrete at the moment.
Planning gef grant
The trust would like to scale up to a medium sized GEF grant. Depending on the amount granted, it would be possible to start collection (purchase equipment), recycling, and also set up bulking points around the country more especially for the remote areas. This will bring in smaller collectors in the rural areas who will be able to use bakkies to take their oil to the bulking points. The trust will the pay them for the oil collected. The recycled oil by the trust will then be sold to mines and other industries. This will ensure sustainability of the trust and also creation of employment and saving of the environment from the effects of oil contamination.
Replication of project activities
There is a large demand country wide for such facilities. The trust with the help of donors will continue citing tanks around the country for public use. A lager number of places are still without tanks.
Linkages gef projects
This project if scaled up it could employ more than 200 people country wide. This could then be linked to other GEF projects (manufacturing, service)
Policy Impact
Tshole Trust objectives include encouraging the adoption and effective implementation of legislation and policies, which promote waste oil management, processes, resource utilisation, and waste oil disposal practices. With increased recovery of used oil seconded by awareness on used oil management advocating for used oil management policy will be easier.
Inovative Financial Mechanisms
Used is a resource in itself that poses opportunity for innovative financial mechanisms. As eluded above use oil collection, cleaning, transportation and recycling are business opportunities that Batswana can embark into for financial mechanisms hence a cleaner environment. To achieve this the project shall encourage Batswana to embark in these businesses.
Project Results
1. The project was completed successfully. All the ten tanks and traps were installed properly. The communities and collectors have started enjoying the benefits from these facilities. An estimation of over 10 000 litres of oil has already been collected from these tanks. This will increase significantly with time to a maximum of around 25 000 litres a month.
2. The awareness campaigns were done successfully in all the areas where tanks were being installed. This was to educate the communities on used oil management and also to make them aware of the existence of the tanks in their areas.
1. Through communication with the local authorities the project has managed to identify the local needs for used oil management. This will help with the implementation of awareness raising activities to curb this problem. The project has managed to identify backyard mechanics as the most people who need to be equipped with used oil management information.
2. Installed tanks will benefit all the used oil generators as they now have facilities to dispose it off properly.
3. The environment has also benefited from this project as there will be less pollution from used oil hence enabling it to perform at its best in providing for the communities in and around it.
