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BBMP Suggests Measures to Compost at Home
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BMP Commissioner Sri Manjunath Prasad having experienced home composting first hand, has become a convinced evangelist of home composting. He has directed all zonal joint commissioners to train BBMP officials on segregation and home composting so that they can advocate the message to public. To this effect, on March 15th, Mr. Veerabadhraswamy, Joint Commissioner, Bommanahalli, and SE Suguna hosted SWMRT members Ms. Vani Murthy, Dr Shanthi Tummala and volunteers of HSR Citizen Forum for a training session on segregation and home composting. The session was attended by Health Inspectors, AEs, AEEs of Engineering department and revenue department.
The JC spoke of how his day begins with calls on garbage and ends with stinker messages on KCDC. He explained that unless BBMP staff set an example of being responsible for their waste, all the preaching would fall on deaf ears. Dr. Shanthi urged the team that is responsible for enforcement of segregation needs to segregate at home. Two bins one bag method of three-way segregation as mandated by Hon High Court and the importance of colour coding was explained. Ms. Vani Murthy, the popular face of composting in the city, took the team through the simplest method of aerobic composting using an aerated container and dry leaves. She called on everybody to consider every dry leaf falling from the tree as money.
“These dry leaves can give us black gold to grow our own nutritious food whose worth cannot be measured in money�, she said. One of the health inspectors spoke of how he had seen composting happening as a child at his village, but had not thought about it in the urban setting. One other official spoke of the way he got upset with how expensive, flowers have become and started growing his own flowers for puja. Many were motivated to start composting immediately and to pick up composting kits. The volunteers had got vegetable waste and soaked microbial coco peat powder for the demonstration.
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