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The house is located in what its owner calls the ?Earth, Wind and Sun Compound?. Here, no waste goes unnoticed or unused.
?We need to treat garbage as a resource. There is no such thing as waste, everything is a resource,? said Cebu City Councilor Nestor Archival.
Making chairs, tables, compact disc racks and starting a vegetable garden using other people's garbage are just some of the projects at the compound in barangay Talamban.
?When you say you want to take care of the environment, there are many who would say that this is just for first world countries. But here you see that there are many advantages when you do that,? he added.
Archival built an environment-friendly house, a pavillon where lectures are conducted, a composting area and a waste water treatment facility, among others, within a 400 sq. m. compound.
The house built by Archival, an electrical engineer, has softdrink cans and scrap iron for balusters, used tarpaulin sheets for shade, furniture made from scrap wood and uses solar power. The interior is cool any time of the day because of air vents from cut-up PVC tubes. Sunlight streams in from chunks of used glass. A water pump is operated by pedal power.
In one corner of the compound, a stack of wooden crates and planks is ready to be disassembled and made into CD racks, chairs and Lazy Boy recliners.
?Wastewater and gray water is recycled here,? said Archival. This is used to water the plants or wash the pig pen.
He also has a self-cleaning fish pond of koi with a capacity of 30,000 liters of rain water. The pond follows the natural system of the river except for a small solar-powered 20 watt water pump.
Archival gets a truckload of garbage, around 1,000 kilos, from the Inayawan Landfill everyday. These are segregated to biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste.
About 300 kilos consist of spoiled vegetables and fruits from Carbon market which are then processed and fed to the 50 goats and pigs inside the compound.Some of the waste is mixed with sawdust from his carpentry shop, goat droppings and worms called African night crawlers to produce organic fertilizer.
The rest of the trash is shredded and mixed with styropor and a small amount of cement to make bricks for foot paths.
?The only benefit I get from all this is the knowledge. This is a showcase,? said Archival.
?What we are saying is, if we have done something in our own way to save rainwater, so can others.?
Archival said he plans to set up a foundation to support environment friendly initiatives of individuals or groups and a village where residents would live in a self-sustaining neighborhood.
?It would be a village close to nature,? he said.
