The Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) started a WASTE MANAGEMENT PROJECT in order to contribute towards solving the major challenge of inefficient management of solid waste in Delhi.
IYCN, in association with “Srishti” and UN-Habitat launched the project at Kali Bari Mandir, Chittaranjan Park, New Delhi with the help of the setup of Excel’s OWC (Organic Waste Compost) machine. It was inaugurated by Smt. Sushma Swaraj on 2nd October 2011. Through this project, IYCN envisions reducing, recycling and reusing through efficient management of organic waste generated in the city by converting it into compost.
Details of the Project:
This project works on implementation of a waste management system that is aimed at managing the organic and food waste generated by the temple (includes all food, garlands of flowers & leaves) and putting into OWC. Besides this machine, there is a ‘shredder’ (to grind the waste so that it decomposes faster), ‘racks’ to store the processed waste for curing and finally some space for packaging the compost.
Some of this compost will be used in the parks at the temple, and the rest would be sold at a subsidised price in the vicinity. This place would be used to showcase the best practice of composting in Delhi.
First Waste Management Workshop
IYCN conducted its first waste management workshop cum training on 29 Oct’11 for students and professionals. The event commenced with a site visit ro Ms. Rashmi Bapna’s place at Khan Market where she practises composting from organic waste generated in her household. We were joined by Mr. Ravi Gulati, the man behind ‘Manzil’, an organization working towards this cause.
The event had a training session on various technical aspects of centralized and decentralized waste management, and the problems of implementing these kinds especially in India & their possible solutions. From Excel Co., we had Mr. Rajiv, who explained the concept of OWC, its functions, features & working.
The event involved both fun and learning, as we had “Kabaad se Jugaad”, a session demonstrating how to make beautiful handicrafts from waste where students learning at Manzil were invited to conduct this session.