All put together I have composted wet wastes from our kitchen for a year. I now hope to continue for many years, helped by the simple system worked out by Prakashji.
But what I have done for 17 years is to keep wastes segregated. All it takes is to hang a big bag next to your kitchen waste bin. Train your hands and mind to throw all paper, plastic, metal, glass waste into this bag, not into your kitchen bin.
Ofcourse you have to train your family members and maids also. It takes not more than a fortnight for the hands and mind to get habituated to putting these dry, recyclable wastes into the big bag. All milk satchets also go into this bag. In my home we add a little water to the satchet to take out all remnants of milk after pouring it out into a kitchen container.
Put out this recyclable, dry waste big bag out to the collector only when it is absolutely full and you cannot squeeze in more. Tie a firm knot to the top of this big bag before giving it to your waste collector. Even if your colony or city does not collect wastes segregated (as most in India dont), this big bag will be snapped up by ragpickers for recycling.
You will have seen ragpickers go through mixed waste on dumpsites to seperate waste that can be sold. They wont need to go through trash to recycle your waste, and it will sell for a much higher value than soiled waste from the mixed garbage dump.
But what I have done for 17 years is to keep wastes segregated. All it takes is to hang a big bag next to your kitchen waste bin. Train your hands and mind to throw all paper, plastic, metal, glass waste into this bag, not into your kitchen bin.
Ofcourse you have to train your family members and maids also. It takes not more than a fortnight for the hands and mind to get habituated to putting these dry, recyclable wastes into the big bag. All milk satchets also go into this bag. In my home we add a little water to the satchet to take out all remnants of milk after pouring it out into a kitchen container.
Put out this recyclable, dry waste big bag out to the collector only when it is absolutely full and you cannot squeeze in more. Tie a firm knot to the top of this big bag before giving it to your waste collector. Even if your colony or city does not collect wastes segregated (as most in India dont), this big bag will be snapped up by ragpickers for recycling.
You will have seen ragpickers go through mixed waste on dumpsites to seperate waste that can be sold. They wont need to go through trash to recycle your waste, and it will sell for a much higher value than soiled waste from the mixed garbage dump.
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