Transformation of Wet Garbage of Indian Urbanites at Household Level
Journal Title: Universal Journal of Environmental Research and Technology - Year 2011, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
Human activities of all sorts generate waste and waste has to be managed properly. An illusion that anyone can think of is to throw the accumulated waste away from homes to keep clean and tidy within their dwellings. The objective of house-hold management of waste is to transform the wet/organic waste/garbage into resourceful compost by providing feasible, arable environment for microbial (aerobic) and compost earthworm activities. Since several decades several methods/protocols has been laid for, yet an easiest ways and means is not yet a near-reach of a kitchen worker. The method that has been mentioned in the current research is simpler, instantaneous and a natural aerator system that the waste itself adopts, is beyond imagination and one can keep their waste in the corner of one’s kitchen which is organic waste container without obnoxious odor, without fly menace and without leachate but emancipate a pleasant fruity odor/ after rain smell – a proof of healthy composting activity that will be set within 24hrs. The only another raw material (can be called as leachate absorbing raw material – LARM) that one need to outsource is coirpith/cocopeat from coir industry available in the Southern states of India and bagasse from sugarcane factories in the North-Western states of India and jute waste from Eastern parts of India. In the present study as model two sets of wet garbage generated in urban family has been taken up. Four member family and a ten member family work have been shown to prove the vermicomposting activities throughout the year, irrespective of season in a simpler, semiscientific manner.
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Sunitha N. Seenappa
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