Crowdsourcing waste to make compost

Bengaluru | Monday | 24th September, 2018

Summary:

While BBMP collects the dry waste and the discarded stuff twice a week, it dumps the wet waste in the dump yard of the layout. In fact, all that BBMP did was collect waste from one place and dump it on another. For the first year, I mixed the wet waste manually every day and left it to decompose. Kumar first puts cardboard at the bottom-most layer, followed by dry leaves, cow dung, and wet waste. Whatever I earned from the selling compost, I gave it to Iranna, my helper, who helped me with the mixing of the wet waste..