How to deal with Wet WasteWelcome to the world of

Composting and Energy Generation

What do you change?

From this… …to This

wet waste

organics

kitchen waste

compostcompositing

biogas plant cooking gas2

� Vegetable/Fruit waste� Food waste except non-vegetarian /oily waste

� Tea leaves/Coffee powder� Garden trimmings/leaves

� Flowers� Pencil shavings� Match Sticks� Shredded Newspaper

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What is Wet Waste?

x Soiled food coversx Sanitary Waste such as napkins and diapersx Cigarette buttsx Oily food (harms the composting process)

x Watery stuff (drain away the liquid from sambhar/curry before disposing it for composting)

x Bits of plastic (cut pieces from your milk covers can harm biogas/composting process)

x Dead animals (rats, cockroaches etc.)

x Weeds and diseased plants from the garden

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What is NOT Wet Waste

Oily food in atake away container Empty Take-way container

Often we find non-

compostable items are

assumed to be wet waste.

Drain the Sambhar/Rasam/curries

before disposing them for composting

Coconut Shells

(collect separately . Can be

used as fuel)

Wet Waste Collection

Final Disposition: Composted at home or

Community Composting or use for biogas

generation. For independent houses your

municipal corporation will provide a separate wet

waste collection

Collection: Covered bin in Kitchen lined with newspaper. Tear newspaper

lengthwise to get 2 long pieces. Place them into the bin to cover the bin inner surface.

NO PLASTIC BAGS!

Disposal : Transfer daily home or community composter. In apartments daily door-to-door collection of wet waste by housekeeping is a best practice

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Home Composting Options

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http://www.dailydump.org/products/leave-it-pots

Daily Dump - Leave-it-Pots or Khamba

Use Compost …- As a Fertilizer- As a Soil Conditioner

- For Soil erosion controlMore : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uses_of_compost

Community Composting Options

http://vennarorganic.com/index.htmlhttp://www.dailydump.org/community-waste-management-final

Daily Dump - Manthan

15 Kgs per day

0 HP

low cost and low maintenance

10 to 170 Kgs

2.5 to 16HP

Purchase Cost , Space and

Maintenance needs to be

considered

Vennar - OWC

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Biogas from Wet Waste

http://www.arti-india.org

http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/arti06

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Get more information if you’re interested to purchase these systems:Biotech , Trivandrum : http://www.biotech-india.org/Domestic_Biogas.aspx

Samuchit Enviro Tech, Pune: http://www.indiamart.com/samuchitenvirotech/biogas-plants-and-prodcuts.html

Arti Biogas Plants Biotech Biogas Plants

http://www.ashden.org/winners/biotech

Electricity from Biogas

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TERI - Electricity from Biogas

http://www.teriin.org/index.php?option=com_ongoing&task=about_project&pcode=2010UD01

Happy Segregation,

Composting, Energy Generation

and Recycling!

vijay.krishnan@ragpicker.in

http://www.youtube.com/user/ragpickerify

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