Flat owners show ways to tackle waste
No Comments Sub Category:Cities,Civic Issues,Kochi Posted On: Nov 22, 2012
Above 90 apartment complexes in the town have tied up with the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) to set up bio-bins in their compound to help deal with the particular rubbish managing problems.They have installed four bio-bins to process the garbage collected from 86 apartment units in the complex. They have provided three different bins one to store plastic waste, the second to store waste like hair, coconut fibre and paper that can be burnt and the third for kitchen waste to segregated at source level.
The kitchen squander is actually transferred within a perforated can which usually consists of lab-cultured bacterias just like the ones found in manure. When the moist squander touches the particular bacteria, it slowly evolves into dry and hard compost which can be used as fertilizer. It takes 15 days for the entire process to complete.
In the beginning the civic body has collected Rs 3,000 from all the flat owners for installing the bio-bins and build a shed for housing the bins.
At this point, the recurring expense is Rs 120 every month, per apartment, which often goes in the direction of disposing over plastic throw away and paying the CREDAI supervisors.
Plastic collected from the apartments tend to be enclosed in sacks and disposed down after every six months. Around 35% with the house complexes within the area that are following the bio-bin way of disposing trash have now tied up Horticorp to start terrace cultivation using the compost they crank out.
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Apartment, Apartment complexes, apartment units, Bio bins, Civic body, Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Association of India, CREDAI, fertilizer, Flat owners, flats in Kochi, house complexes, plastic waste, Waste segregation
