BUSINESS CLUB AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Effects / Impacts of the business project activities
Impact of the business project on the environment.

 Created employment opportunities e.g cleaners from the community were employed by the business
 Exploited the idle local resources e.g. idle land, idle rooms with in the school premises were occupied by the business project activities.
 Sponsoring community development programmes such as ensuring proper cleanliness, proper disposal of wastes etc
 Created market for the community members produce like onions, flour, cooking oil etc were purchased from the community shops. This has improved their income levels.
 Participating in social activities like tree planting, cleaning among others.
 Acted as a source for study purposes.
 Contributed to the government’s revenue this was done through employing community members who later managed to pay government taxes.
 provides goods to the local community at a relatively affordable prices

Negative impacts
 Littering the compound with paper bags, polythene bags etc.
 Students making noise when consuming the products during break/launch time.
 Causing health hazards and possible accidents to students most especially during production work like cutting their fingers.
 Sound pollution. Students made noise while buying business products most especially S.1 and s.2 classes
 Deforestation. Trees were cut while collecting fire wood
 Air pollution

Ways through the business club maintained cleanliness of its environment.
 By sweeping the compound daily by the school cleaners who were employed by the business project
 By ensuring daily mopping of the business premises.
 By slashing the compound grass and trimming of the flowers to ensure beauty of the school.
 By painting business premises.
 By ensuring cleaning and washing of the working equipment e.g dishes, buckets etc.
 By providing appropriate sanitary facilities like towels, toilet papers etc
 By slashing around business premises.
 By fumigating around business premises on daily basis.
 By providing sanitizers to enable club members and customers cleaning themselves.
 By providing detergents like soap to club members and customers.

The business is conserving the environment in the following ways.
 By ensuring proper disposal of the wastes e.g egg shells are properly disposed
 By recycling the wastes e.g shell are later sold poultry farmers to make poultry feed.
 By planting trees e.g the business club planted some trees in the school as a way of conserving the environment
 Educating the school community about proper disposal of waste e.g students are encouraged to dump wastes in gazzated dust bins.
 Using environmental friendly packaging materials like paper bags which are less harmful to the environment.

How the business disposed off / manage waste materials;
 Dumping waste materials in waste disposal bins/covered containers.
 Burning of waste materials such as littered paper bags by customers in the pit next to girls’ toilet.
 Using chemicals which decompose waste materials such helping to break wastes down into simply organic matter
 Recycling the waste materials such as plastic bottles, polythene bags among
others
 Dumping waste in a single gazette area /place.
 Selling waste materials to other businesses
 Using waste materials as manure, feeds etc
 Re-using waste materials e.g containers , buckets etc
 Contracting waste management firm to carry away waste materials