Fifteen years ago if your household recycled its Diet Coke cans and Cheerios boxes, you were considered environmentally forward. Now, if you do not compost, you are considered lazy and wasteful.

The project will also see the creation of a vermin-composting facility

GETTING BETTER: Workers laying a cement road around Thanjavur garbage dump.

A Composting unit over a drain may seem a little bit of a surprise for many. But, welcome to Borda in the jurisdiction of Margao Municipal Council where a composting unit is presently under construction on a water nullah.
While work on the composting unit has raised many an eyebrows, the Margao Municipal council has denied that work on the unit is being carried out by the Civic body.

R. Vimal Kumar

Proposed unit will be equipped to handle five tonnes of non-segregated waste a day

File Photo: M. Balaji

NEW EFFORT: Garbage in Tirupur is to be disposed of at the compost yard to be established by the Department of Agriculture.

Pune In a move that would provide some respite to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), the state Forest Department has agreed to give out forest land for dumping organic waste and using it for vermicomposting. The PMC, which is grappling with garbage dumping problem at Uruli Devachi and Phursungi, has seven months to resolve the issue by finding an alternative site.

The Margao Municipal Council has moved in to invite reputed and experienced companies to set up a garbage treatment plant.
But, sadly, the composting units set up within the jurisdiction of the Civic body upon orders of the Bombay High Court have literally hit a big block.

In their free time, these rail employees work to produce vermicompost in the Matunga workshop

Their main job is to ensure that Mumbai

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