Residents of L B Shastrinagar segregate the wet waste from the dry
Resident Welfare Association (RWA) of L B Shastrinagar started a noble cause of sorting out the wet waste
In 2006, the Resident’s Welfare Association (RWA) in L B Shastrinagar, started working on an anti-plastic drive. Three years ago, little did hard core techie Suresh Kumar think that a seminar on environment would usher in a breath of fresh air in his locality. When the RWA came across Suresh Kumar a couple of years later, they joined hands and started brainstorming together for the betterment of the locality.
Today, L B Shastrinagar, composedly nestled a few kilometres away from the old HAL Airport emanates a happy fragrance. Thanks to the collective mindset, most people in the locality are part of this initiative. Apart from helping apartments set up composting machines, rain water harvesting and encouraging the use of cloth bags that they distribute, RWA in L B Shastrinagar also educate children about the environment.
The RWA, christened Uthkarsh, presently has two teams — anti-plastic team and waste management team.
As the clock strikes six and the sun creeps up to the east of the horizon, the residents of L B Shastrinagar step out of their homes and dump their baskets laden with wet wastes into compositors placed in their apartment premises. After about eight to ten weeks, the wet waste breaks down into manure and they use it to tend their blooming gardens.
Due to the high disposable income and also because food items come in disposable packets, the waste that is generated from each house is quite large. “All the waste go to the dumping yards and it takes a long time for them to degrade. Most food items don’t get exposed because they are in plastic bags,” says Suresh.
Every day, they segregate the wet waste from the dry. The former makes its way to compositors that they bought from Daily Dump, while the latter is sold to Kabaddiwalas. They have a separate process to sort out e-waste as well. “If the e-wastes are mixed in the soil, it can be toxic. There is a common collection point for e-waste. People dispose wastes such as batteries, bulbs, CDs and in these containers. We have tied up with Ash recylers, a certified e-waste management company. They take the waste and segregate it scientifically,” points out Suresh.
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