Summary:
“Making windrows correctly will ensure that solid waste management rules are followed. Aurangabad: The Central Naka compound, which houses the ward office, local body tax (LBT) office and the parking lot for garbage vehicles, has become a dumping yard for Zone 3. The process reduces the volume by 50% as it fastens the decomposition of the biodegradable material in the waste. “The waste is piled up into vertical heaps of 10-12 feet with the help of excavators and is sprayed with bio-culture. Several trucks of organic compost produced in the process was given to farms while the non-decomposed waste including plastic, clothes and metal was sent to boiler in a Chittegaon factory.Experts, however, underlined that the solution to solid waste management problem lies in segregation of waste at source..