K. Manikandan

Useful option: Bottle gourds are among the vegetables grown in the kitchen garden of the Perungalathur town panchayat.

TAMBARAM: Two urban local bodies in the southern suburbs of Chennai have demonstrated the use of applying organic manure generated in their compost yards to grow vegetables in kitchen gardens maintained by them.

Karthik Madhavan

For the first time ever, segregation and composting of daily waste commenced at the Sonsodo dumping yard on Thursday with technical expertise from Goa Foundation, with Chief Minister, Digambar Kamat promising all help and co-operation to the Civic body to tide over the situation.

Composting units became a reality in the Commercial Capital on Tuesday as per the orders of the High Court mandating the Civic bodies to set up these units to tackle garbage problem.

MARGAO, NOV 10
Plans by the Margao Municipal Council to set up composting units to treat wet and bio-degradable waste has hit a block.
A total of 60 units were planned across the city - three units in each of the 20 wards - but the Civic body has succeeded to erect only 10-11 units so far.

Pune, November 6 S Sivaram, director, National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), inaugurated the garbage composting facility in the laboratory campus here on Thursday.

MARGAO, OCT 21
Margao Municipal Council

Lahore Composting Plant is currently operating with a capacity of 300 tons per day (TPD). It will be expanded to 1,000 TPD by 2009 with a possibility of further expansion up to 1,500 TPD. All these expansions can be materialised within the present premises of LCL with the co-operation of World Bank at a total cost of $5.524 million.

V. Venkatasubramanian

KANCHEEPURAM: The Tiruporur town panchayat has started producing natural manure from biodegradable waste collected from households and establishments in the area.

Compost, organic fertiliser, is being made in all the unions of Gobindaganj Upazila of the district from water hyacinth under 100-day unemployment programme of the government.

Upazila Nirbahi Officer Abdul Mannan formally inaugurated the scheme at Masta village under Kamardaha union in the upazila on Monday.