- It saves enormously on waste-transport costs .
- Reduces waste volumes for disposal by 90%
- Saves on manures for park maintenance
Who should do it?
- All institutions like colleges, hostels, hotels, hospitals, clubs, marriage-halls, jails, zoos.
- Apartment-complexes, bungalows, Govt and city offices.
- All city-owned parks and sites.
- Many individuals enjoy doing it voluntarily.
Where it is done
- In garden strips along apartment walls, on terraces or in flower-pots or window-boxes
- In local parks, traffic islands, road dividers
- * In conventional large street-bins
- In sewage-farm premises
- On temple lands or private farms
How it is done
- Biomethanation in factory canteens
- Vermi-culture (needs animal-husbandry care)
- Aerobic wind-rows or checker-brick bins
- Anaerobic heaps at transfer-sites
- With or without composting bio-cultures
Why Waste Separation at Source is important?
Source-separation will make cleaner streams of ‘dry’ waste available for recycling or re-use.- There will be less injuries to waste-pickers.
- Health hazards will be reduced.
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