Simple brick tank composting

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No underground pits, no fancy or complex organic digesters or converters. Sierra Towers uses a strip of simple brick tanks built along the wall at the far corner of the apartment compound for composting. Located in Lokhandwala, Kandivali East, Mumbai, Sierra Towers, houses about 220 families, and these compost tanks have been adequate to hold the wet waste of all the households.

Compost tanks at Sierra Towers, Jan 2016

'Don't kill our kids to keep your city clean' - Times of India

Rohith B R

BENGALURU: The garbage gridlock worsened on Thursday. As the muck piles grew larger in Bengaluru city, furious villagers of Dodda mankalala in Doddaballapur, about 50 kms away, dug their heels in. "Why should the future of our children be at stake just to keep Bengaluru clean?

Protests spread to villages near other landfills

Bangalore, June 4, 2014, DHNS:

The garbage crisis in the City has deepened further with protests spreading to the villages near other landfills at Terra Firma in Doddaballapur and the Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) unit at Kudlu, off Hosur Road, Bommanahalli.

Govt composting firm to review ties with Terra Firma on supplying organic compost: Akshatha M - Citizen Matters, Bangalore News

Akshatha M, 30 May 2015 , Citizen Matters

The tie up with private waste management firms in Bengaluru to help them market composting products made the profits of Karnataka Composting Development Corporation soar high. However, the composting firm conveniently ignored putting in place the required checks and balances.

The Karnataka Composting Development Corporation (KCDC) has decided to serve a notice to Terra Firma Biotechnologies Pvt Ltd, on cancellation of the agreement for supplying vermicompost, after the issue of garbage being sold as vermicompost came into light.

Residents near landfill sites begin protest as mayor's deadline ends

Bengaluru, Nov 2, 2015, DHNS:

Is BBMP squandering Rs. 200 crore?

K. V. Aditya Bharadwaj

The answer to the city’s mounting garbage problems lies in the complete implementation of segregation of waste at source. But, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) can implement this only by bringing about a paradigm shift in the way citizens view solid waste management and cooperate with the civic body.

However, due to lack of will to segregate waste, mixed waste is being sent to the new processing units.

Despite knowing pretty well that segregation at source is a pre-requisite for the success of processing waste, BBMP has done precious little to enforce the segregation two-and-a-half years after it was made mandatory.

Many solid waste management experts blame the BBMP’s lack of planning and a roadmap for ruining the newly-constructed waste processing units.

What makes a project succeed in villages – Vellore C. Srinivasan, Project Director, Indian Green Service

Vellore C. Srinivasan is project director and consultant for solid and liquid resource management in the Indian Green Service (http://indiangreenservice.com), an environmental protection and service organisation. He was the chief guest at the Karma Yoga Second Annual Convention, in Great Lakes Institute of Management, where people from the nearby 21 villages had assembled.