KOLHAPUR: Ekati, a city-based rag pickers organisation, has converted waste collected from 2,700 houses from two wards in the Sambhajinagar area into 15 tonne of organic manure.The organisation will put up different qualities of manure at the Gem Stone Building near Central Bus Stand for sale from Thursday onwards.As part of the decentralisation of the waste management system, the organisation was roped in to collect, segregate and process waste from the two wards in the Sambhajinagar area. It assigned the task to around 22 ragpickers associated with the organisation. Revenue minister Chandrakant Patil had provided organic waste composter machine with a capacity of one tonne. The initiate has been successful as it has helped to transform the wards into 'zero-waste' wards.Founder of Ekati organisation Anuradha Bhosale said, "The organic manure will be available for farming as well as gardening purpose. We want to tell people that the waste generated by them every day can be converted into good quality manure and the burden on the civic body to process the waste can be reduced to a large extent. During the first year, we collected more than 22 tonnes of plastic waste and submitted it for recycling. The decentralisation of the waste processing can help reduce concerns of garbage menace to a large extent." KMC ) is going to start the biogas plant at several places in the city. The garbage collected in the localities will be used to run the biogas plant. At present, biogas based power plant has been activated at Puikhadi as part of the decentralisation of the solid waste management.

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