Panchagani is one of the ecologically sensitive areas.The garbage is not priorly processed and is directly dumped on one of the hill station. The site is located at a height and is situated at a height and hence, the garbage flows through the lower areas in monsoons. photo by me (Kunal Jaiswal)
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Hello Premilla ji, That is good to know. Yes, the work you are trying to do is not understood by most local authorities, govt. officials and politicians as it does not interest them. We have several projects going on at different parts of India, as we have partnered with local NGOs and other organizations with focus in solid-waste management..If our presence is not there, we try to reach out to the local bodies and work out a MOU to do some work..Which city are you looking at? Thanks, Saurav
I am all the way in the Hudson Valley USA, living on an organic Community supported agriculture farm. Segregating at source is a critical aspect of waste management that a group of us tried to introduce in India in one of its many heritage towns (their extraordinary heritage drowning in their new found consumer waste), hoping to provide a scalable model. We found the local politics oddly obstructive and discouraging, although some locals were eager to cooperate. If we continue our work, I would very much like to be in touch with a like minded outfit like yours. We are presently pondering our plans. Is most of your work located in Orissa Saurav ji?
Hello Premilla ji, We are primarily working on municipal solid-waste management with the focus on setting up systems in a de-centralized manner enabling and ensuring segregation of waste at the source with proper processing in the way of aerobic composting. We have designed and developed series of products/tools to help us do the basic steps of segregation with the help of WIWO Liners/Bins that stop the use of plastic bags/black garbage bags (most non-environmental thing) as those dirty bags never get recycled and always get dumped. Our WIWOs are reusable and washable liners. Once segregation happens at the source, we compost the wet/organic/kitchen waste in a scientific yet natural manner using our Chipy Chopy Organic Waste Crushers and RoliPoli / RoliMoli Composters. There is no need for - worms - earthworms or redworms as vermi-composting is not very sustainable due to its inherent problems ; you also do not have to dig up any pits or make trenches or use any bio-culture/enzymes. Our technology as you see in the videos is very simple and sustainable. The horticulture waste / leaves / flowers / cuttings etc. can be easily mulched by either shredding it down to reduce volume using our Chipy Chopy Horticulture Waste Shredder or as is using Mulchy Bulchy Bags..Again, no pits or worms are required. Besides, these we have few other products that help us store our waste and send for further recycling..We are very confident that with the help of local partners in Panchgani we can setup a system that can take care of the waste in a systematic manner..I am unable to find any such NGO or individual or organization willing to work with us-GreenBandhu in Panchgani, so if anyone can direct us, we will be grateful..Thanks, Saurav - 9818167932
seems like Green Bandhu should get involved in Panchgani; Sauravji, after seeing two of your you tube videos -- one of your work in Bhuvaneswar/Steel plant, the other on mulching -- I came away none the wiser about your work and abandoned further attempts to explore your you tube postings; would you be so kind as to select even one which provides substantial information on your work? I would especially love to learn about your solid and toxic waste management with heavy industry. Thank you so much.
premilla dixit nag : Local environmentalist have even tried involving schools and colleges as panchgani is considered as school hub with lots of boarding schools but things r getting messed up as hotels are posing major threat.
We did complete study there and meetings with the local youth
GreenBandhu has been working in the field of solid-waste management for the last five years, specializing in de-centralized solid-waste management. Our expertise is in providing technologies and processes that facilitates in source-segregation and enables conversion of wet waste/organic waste/bio-degradable waste into compost/organic manure in-situ in a de-centralized, cost-effective, and user-friendly manner. We have certain methods regarding proper segregation and storage of dry / recyclable waste as well. The key is segregation of waste at the source-level, something that we have been able to put into practice in the projects we have been involved in. For more details, you may please contact me at saurav@greenbandhu.org.in (or) M: 9818167932. We will be happy to engage with anyone in the field of solid-waste management. Thanks, Saurav
Has anyone gone door to door with the local people affected by each dump site and gathered any data on health? Has anyone taken soil samples from these areas and got it tested for toxics content? For those who live near and are concerned about these dumpsites, would it not make sense to form local citizen's groups that take it upon themselves to involve the local schools, colleges and universities to start the data gathering (if there is none) and the brain-storming for a people's plan of action based on clear information? Whoever set up the failed vermi composting project and did not know to not include plastics, clearly did not do their homework; shoddy work produces shoddy results. These are serious challenges and must be dealt with with a seriousness of purpose; that is not to say that the tasks should not be fun and joyful, they should be that, but not for lack of serious purpose! What are the options for local industrial waste? What is set up for their processing/recycle/reduction ? What are the regulations for managing local hospital waste? Who knows? Does the local media inform? How are the local environmentalists organizing their work to involve more common people, to go beyond politicians? Is local residential waste being organized by segregating compostable waste, from other recyclable waste, segregating plastics, batteries and such? Is there a waste reduction education underway in society? Are people using reuse shopping bags over throw-away ones? One cannot expect to start a waste clean-up process downstream, without curbing waste at its source. Simultaneous small steps from multiple directions converging with problem solving solutions is a way to proceed. Perhaps, one part of an immediate solution to consider for these mountains of waste is to catch the rain-water run off within its circumfrence, with plantings of toxics-absorbing local flora-- from grasses to shrubs and trees, in a ring around the mound several feet out. I have read that khus khus grass works well, is hardy, beautiful, and restorative.
Actual there is hell lot of Politics in that and local environmntalst are trying but political matters are also creating problems
The most vulnerable method of dumping waste and composting. Heavy rainfall during monsoons would percolate the leachate to the underground acquifers and overburden runoff invites much serious consequence to downsided locations of the hill. The location can no longer be recommended as a dumping ground. The PCB should be actively involved.
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