Page 60 - Clean India Journal Magazine June 2019 Issue

WASTE SOLUTIONS

SWM workers a substantial project team was highly co- farming on the same plot
incentive to segregate the operative, and pointed out of land. The produce will
waste they collect, as soon as future obstacles that were be handed over free of cost
they collect it. These workers eliminated. One problem was to orphanages and old age
soon realised that they were the possibility that an erratic homes in the area, and the
now earning `4500-6000 supply of power from the excess compost supplied
per month from selling dry biogas plant would trip up to anyone who asks, for no
waste, and enthusiastically the transformer; taking a leaf charge. In this way, food
took charge of the segregation out of the book of rooftop waste which comes from
process. Housing societies solar plants, an inverter was society, goes back to society.
chipped in by providing a installed, which could also With a total, all-inclusive
room to store dry waste. measure the amount of power investment of `55-60 lakhs,
Expectedly, no one was produced and the fraction the biogas plant was installed.
willing to have the biogas supplied to the streetlights. With a capacity of one tonne,
plant on their premises. This also saved the cost of it receives and processes an
Eventually, the association installing a highly expensive average of 900kg of organic
was able to obtain a portion of transformer solely for the waste every day. About 90-
land owned by the municipal mini-grid, as well as nullified 95% of this waste arrives in
corporation’s hydraulic the need to dig up roads to lay already segregated state, the
department, that housed the new cables. rest is segregated manually at
reservoir supplying water “We didn’t want any the site. It is usually delivered
to the area. By a stroke of organic residue to go out by the municipal corporation
luck, it was found that a of Pali Hill,” says Poplai; at night, which is when it is
transformer was located just the plant produces 300kg fed into the plant.
metres away. of compost a week, so the Depending upon the
The power company’s association started vegetable amount of waste coming in,

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