Bengaluru: For most of us, the term organic waste converter (OWC) is identical to the dark basement and smell filled with wet trash box surrounded by flies and insects, waiting to be processed into compost.
Apartment Complex – DLF Westend Heights Apartment is located in Akshay Nagar in Begur – has reversed this image: their OWC is not only majestic (with effective magnetic curtains and exhaust) and smell and free flying, it is also efficient and helps the community with compost.
Residents have stopped paying for waste disposal by managing it in their gate.
In addition to using in-house compost, they produce Rs 40,000 per month by selling dry waste.
Complex, with 1,830 flats where 1,500 is occupied by 5,000 residents, producing 15 tons of dry waste and 30 tons of wet waste every month.
Until 2019, a contractor will eliminate solid waste, but the cost continues to increase.
Residents also do not have clarity about how their waste is discarded.
But things change when they realize that the financial and environmental costs of their waste must be cut.
Kartikya Khanna, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the RWA Apartment, said that when they decided to start the separation and manage waste in their complex.
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Rashmi Vasanth, a member of the RWA executive committee, led the volunteers to educate the waste separation team, and distribute two trash cans and one bag for each household.
Mohi Shaik, a member of the RWA Sub-Committee, said their next step was to increase the OWC capacity provided by the builder with 500kg a day and ensure it was done by hygienic.
Using OWC means inviting flies, smell and leachate, as well as annoying residents.
Khanna said they could have a clean and efficient OWC by ensuring no stagnant water.
Wet waste is covered with dry waste to avoid flies, the empty crate is cleaned with a jet spray to remove the rest of the waste and install electric flycatcher.
“Today, the OWC processes 10 tons of wet waste per month.
It has a vibrating filter, 20 trolleys and air handling units.
Compost is sold to residents and external buyers,” Khanna said.
The community has done a ton of compost without costs for public plantation projects.
“Those who are interested can write to compost.
Whalcowa@gmail.com,” he said.