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Pez Maya
In Pez Maya we are conscious that GVI aligns and helps achieving the UN Sustainable
Development Goals. Therefore, we began our efforts to create local and global- resource
efficiency in consumption and production patterns. In order to do so, we worked on improving our
current compost. With the help of an expert, the compost system was improved by setting up a better
system to lay the organic waste and to produce soil for growing a veggie garden on base.
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Our efforts to improve our compost began a few months ago with the construction of a
wooden box in which we used to pile the organic matter (Fig 1-2). Pez Maya paradisiac
surroundings which involve sandy beaches, mangroves, lagoons and a variety of animals that
come to enjoy the organic waste feast from flies to raccoon families- can become a challenge
when trying to maintain a compost that aims to produce quality soil for growing greens.
However, we are closer to success every day.
Fig 1 and 2: How our old compost was looking, and how it looks now.
Our first move was to seek for assistance from a local expert since even when we used to have
two wooden boxes in a designated area to dump our organic waste, it wasnt decomposing just
by piling inside the boxes. We cleared all of what was accumulated and started the system that
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Fig. 5 Worms
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