Home Composting
Why Compost?
- Composting at source helps create our own "black gold" - beautiful manure for our home gardening
- It helps reduce the burden of waste management by BBMP or local corporations!
Our campaign
- HSR Citizen forum is a strong supporter and campaigner for SWMRT(Solid Waste Management Round Table)'s Swachagraha Campaign,
- Forum conducts regular sessions and workshops on composting to children from schools, apartment complexes, corporates.
- This campaign is aimed to get people to manage their daily organic waste - Compost, Grow and Cook being the theme of the campaign.
What goes in compost bins?
- Average household generate about 600 - 750 grams of kitchen waste. Kitchen waste comprises of fruit and vegetable peels, puja flowers, cooked food, non plant based food waste
- This contributes to about 60% of waste generated from our homes daily. The kitchen waste is highly useful resource if turned into rich compost.
Urban Gardening Workshops
We also conduct Urban Gardening workshops to help people get started on growing their own healthy chemical free greens and vegetables at home, using the compost that they made.
Resources
There are many ways of composting kitchen waste, and many products available in the market.
Please visit SwachaGraha campaign website for more resources.
Community Composting
Lane Composters
- In HSR, 15 lane composters are installed.
- The lane composters are placed in lanes where volunteers have come forward to adopt and oversee the operations.
- BBMP auto collects the kitchen waste from about 45-50 homes, and load the composter, with microbial coco peat and leaf much layering.
- Anyone who would like to adopt this for their lane, please contact us.
Dry Leaf Composters
- HSR Layout is a green layout with lot of trees. During winter, the roads are filled with dry leaves, which was quietly burnt adding to the pollution levels.
- With BBMP support, 22 of these leaf composting tanks were build in HSR's parks.
- All the neighbourhood swept leaves from streets are deposited in these tankers by the BBMP workers.
- Periodic addition of cow dung slurry and spraying some water, these dry leaves turn into rich mulch which is used in our Community Garden and SwachaGraha Kalika Kendra.
Temple Composters
- HSR is known for some very old temples. Devotees coming for worship bring in lot of flowers.
- We have streamlined management of these puja flowers by installing temple composting rinks in 12 temples.
- The compost that is harvested is truly divine compost - ready to feed hungry plants.
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