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Primary segregation by residents A simple 3-tier segregation: kitchen, dry & sanitary
waste.
No plastic bag is used for collecting kitchen waste
Sanitary waste to be wrapped in a paper unless there is
liquid content like dog poop, etc.
Dry waste to be poured directly into HK bin.
Kitchen waste composting
Up’Grade method by Reap Benefit using crates.
Kitchen waste is shredded and mixed with Up’Grade at 1:3 ratio.
High-quality compost is ready in 25-30 days.
Directly used for plants in our garden.
Put the mixed waste in the middle layer and top with it another layer of Up’Grade & let it stay for 25-30 days.
Dry waste secondary segregation
Residents do primary segregation.
Housekeepers sort it out into 14-15 categories.
Water bottles, milk packet, other plastic waste (bottles, cans, containers, etc), metal (cans), broken & unbroken glass, partially & fully recyclable plastic newspapers, cardboard, tetrapacks, rubber, wood, coconut shells.
All this happens in 10-15 minutes by 14 HKs.
Sanitary/bio-medical waste Sanitary pads, diapers, nails, fallen hair, bio-medical
waste like syringes, needles, etc.
It is sent to Semb-Ramky in non-chlorinated plastic bags for incineration.
GOING ORGANIC, STEP BY STEP Garden used to heavy doses of pesticides & synthetic
fertilisers.
Attended organic gardening training, backed up by in-depth
research & meetings with experts.
Soil enrichment by adding 3-4 kinds of lab-produced
beneficial microbes mixed with our own organic manure.
Astounding results! Garden is much healthier and immune
to many kinds of infections.
Behavioural change & pride First, creation of positive environment around the whole
exercise.
Starts with resistance. And then, people take to it like duck to
water. WM is now just a matter of habit.
Residents are proud to be part of this first-ever self-sustaining
unique community—role models for the entire city.
Entire staff responds splendidly. There’s a palpable sense of
achievement in everyone.
Willingness to do more. Many people shunned chemical
pesticides, switched over to organic.
About me Print media journalist since 1997—DH, TOI & NIE. HoD of
Acharya Institute of Journalism. Corporate Communications
Chief at BCIL.
Written extensively on environment and human rights
issues. Covered the 2009 North Karnataka floods.
All green initiatives extensively documented in my blog:
Endlessly Green (www.savitahiremath.com).