What a magician does to a coffin, a man in Chembur did to an enormous water tank 3 months in the past. On the behest of the Avanti Niketan Cooperative Society, the hardware skilled sliced the unused tank down the center to offer it a new, useful life. One of its two halves now stands beneath a tarpaulin safe haven that the complex's cleaner, Shankar mama, visits each morning with leaves plucked from the complex lawn and fertilizer that smells like rainsoaked earth. As he creates lay ers of leaves, fertilizer and rainy rubbish from the complex's 144 residences, Meena Kanakia, head of the complex's committee, oversees.
Through the mesh-like lid of the tank, she has noticed the damp mixture harden right into a dry, odourless manure and, lately , like a pupil watching for effects, she is eager to understand its grade.
It was once Kanakia who--on the insistence of the NGO Ecorox — had determined to enlist fellow committee members to put money into the Rs 35,000-worth safe haven and Rs 10,000-worth fertilizers. Convincing citizens wasn't simple as some have been sceptical in regards to the ease of implementation. "Today nearly 90% are on board," said Kanakia, who got an NGO worker to return in each day for ten days to explain the bin composting procedure to Shankar mama. Today, this rainy rubbish composting bin stands as any other proud accent on this complex, making it prepped and in a position for October 2 — BMC's cut-off date for housing complexes that produce over 100 kg of waste day-to-day or that have a space above 20,000 square to compost rainy waste on their premises draws closer.From that day on, rainy waste from such societies might not be collected and BMC vehicles will select up handiest dry trash.
In a blind ballot that TOI conducted of ten such societies across the town , it emerged that whilst a couple of have been nonetheless clueless in regards to the cut-off date and others sceptical of it, many have been embracing the challenge. Versova's 150-flat-strong Everest Apartments, for example, got two tumbler composting containers put in in the premises previous this month. "We are only testing them out at the moment and have received them on a tri al basis," said Phiroz Shah, a resident.
The cut-off date has even impressed some creative considering.Sunflower at Cuffe Parade, for example, is not only re-training citizens and domestic help on the way to segregate waste but is also considering putting in a TV in the carry which can play a video explaining the benefits of composting rainy waste. At Juhu's Mandar Society , on the other hand, Gulshan Gandhi attended an exhibition on composting conducted via BMC which inspired him to implement the process in his development. He also visited other societies where rainy waste is com posted to understand the process. Gandhi then convinced citizens to create a pit and start composting rainy waste however the procedure wasn't happening correctly . So, they've just lately put in a glass compos ting bin and are in the procedure of shopping for a rainy waste composer, which is taking longer than anticipated because production devices don't seem to be geared for such prime call for.
However, issues proceed to clutter some complexes.
Residents of Tytan at Napean Sea Road are waiting for the government to show the way to compost rainy waste. The re are other demanding situations. Jayant Shetty of Dindoshi's 675-flatstrong Raheja Complex said he knew in regards to the cut-off date but that it was once not possible to compost rainy waste in the society ."There is no place in our society for composting and we are worried about the stench if we create a composting pit," said Shetty , adding that the composting pit won't handiest need a financial funding of Rs 78 lakh and but also time. "It will take around six months to build which is a lot of time," said Shetty . "We can't do it on our own."
(Inputs via Sakina Mamuwala)
Through the mesh-like lid of the tank, she has noticed the damp mixture harden right into a dry, odourless manure and, lately , like a pupil watching for effects, she is eager to understand its grade.
It was once Kanakia who--on the insistence of the NGO Ecorox — had determined to enlist fellow committee members to put money into the Rs 35,000-worth safe haven and Rs 10,000-worth fertilizers. Convincing citizens wasn't simple as some have been sceptical in regards to the ease of implementation. "Today nearly 90% are on board," said Kanakia, who got an NGO worker to return in each day for ten days to explain the bin composting procedure to Shankar mama. Today, this rainy rubbish composting bin stands as any other proud accent on this complex, making it prepped and in a position for October 2 — BMC's cut-off date for housing complexes that produce over 100 kg of waste day-to-day or that have a space above 20,000 square to compost rainy waste on their premises draws closer.From that day on, rainy waste from such societies might not be collected and BMC vehicles will select up handiest dry trash.
In a blind ballot that TOI conducted of ten such societies across the town , it emerged that whilst a couple of have been nonetheless clueless in regards to the cut-off date and others sceptical of it, many have been embracing the challenge. Versova's 150-flat-strong Everest Apartments, for example, got two tumbler composting containers put in in the premises previous this month. "We are only testing them out at the moment and have received them on a tri al basis," said Phiroz Shah, a resident.
The cut-off date has even impressed some creative considering.Sunflower at Cuffe Parade, for example, is not only re-training citizens and domestic help on the way to segregate waste but is also considering putting in a TV in the carry which can play a video explaining the benefits of composting rainy waste. At Juhu's Mandar Society , on the other hand, Gulshan Gandhi attended an exhibition on composting conducted via BMC which inspired him to implement the process in his development. He also visited other societies where rainy waste is com posted to understand the process. Gandhi then convinced citizens to create a pit and start composting rainy waste however the procedure wasn't happening correctly . So, they've just lately put in a glass compos ting bin and are in the procedure of shopping for a rainy waste composer, which is taking longer than anticipated because production devices don't seem to be geared for such prime call for.
However, issues proceed to clutter some complexes.
Residents of Tytan at Napean Sea Road are waiting for the government to show the way to compost rainy waste. The re are other demanding situations. Jayant Shetty of Dindoshi's 675-flatstrong Raheja Complex said he knew in regards to the cut-off date but that it was once not possible to compost rainy waste in the society ."There is no place in our society for composting and we are worried about the stench if we create a composting pit," said Shetty , adding that the composting pit won't handiest need a financial funding of Rs 78 lakh and but also time. "It will take around six months to build which is a lot of time," said Shetty . "We can't do it on our own."
(Inputs via Sakina Mamuwala)
Mumbai looks for ways to convert trash into treasure ahead of October 2 cut-off
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