The city of Delhi is growing and correspondingly does the waste produced. The Municipal waste, which is not always properly segregated at source and often ends up as mixed waste in the already overflowing landfills. The easiest and most effective way to address this issue is through composting.
Composting in very simple words is making use of the day to day waste that is produced in your household to create a product called compost. Both composting as a process and compost as a product are organic in nature. By composting you are reducing the space needed for waste disposal and transforming that waste by using it as a fertilizer at various places including your own garden (or a roof top kitchen garden to grow your own vegetables)
The Indian Youth Climate Network, along other NGOs, has been working to educate and promote the simple process of composting in a number of areas in New Delhi, starting from Khan Market. This residential locality with the adjacent market generates a large quantity of waste every single day which inculdes a lot of organic waste as well.
On the 13th of June Manzil, a youth-empowerment NGO based in Khan Market, hosted a composting party to launch their own composting system onsite, with support from IYCN. The team has installed a Daily Dump khamba, a home composting unit.
The children had organized and performed music, street plays, dance and everything that is always in a party but the theme was Composting! We educated people about composting and the process and benefits of composting.
We aim to install more such composting units and spread the awareness about composting. If you would like to intern with the project, please fill up the intern form at www.iycn.in/content/intern