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more-inMoving forward in its eco-friendly initiatives, the Golden Rock Railway Workshop here will soon deploy pollution free e-cart to transport low density organic waste generated within its sprawling premises. The e-cart would transport organic waste collected from various locations and dump them near the vermi-compost yard established inside. The workshop has been utilising organic waste generated to the extent of nearly 100 kg to 150 kg per day for bio-gas and in the manufacture of vermi-compost and fuel briquette, the official said. The e-cart will be able to transport at a time about 720 kg of low density organic waste generated within the workshop that is involved in periodic overhaul of diesel locomotives and passenger coaches. The plan was to transport 5,000 tonnes of piled up zero-value non-hazardous waste to the cement factory within a year..