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I'm not sure whether I feel more like a proud parent or a compulsive chef, but either way, I find myself each morning, peering into a big bin of rotting food waste, stirring, measuring, monitoring. I've been increasingly careful about what I am putting in, adding not only my occasional mango peel or onion skin, but collecting banana peels from the masala-banana-walla and rose petals from the florist on my street. I'd argue that I have the classiest compost in the world.
By using my own food waste, and the scraps of those around me, I've been able to create fertilizer free from fossil fuels (and even free from the transportation of fertilizers from the other side of Delhi). I'm also managing my methane that is otherwise produced as my foodwaste rots in the landfills of Ghaziabad, some 30 km from Delhi center. This is nothing like
Clinton Vaz's inspirational waste work in Goa nor is it as neat and beautiful as the units from Daily Dump (which I hope to scale up to soon!). But my city composting is making me proud to have found value in a waste stream otherwise ignored, and is giving me bigger ideas to work towards. I feel that my eyes are opened. Like a chef always looking for better ingredients, I walk through the market in search of even better compostables... dried leaves, fruit peels, egg shells...
If you're interested in building your own city composting system, do check out Daily Dump's units. By helping stack your waste on top of each other and cycle through these units, Daily Dump's designs are very effective at aerating compost for urban settings. They're beautiful to boot!
Rapid Organic Composting - A new age solution to organic waste
brochure for electromechanical unit for fast composting
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