Processing Wet Waste at Source !

It's year since we started composting the wet waste at home using the DailyDump's khamba and leave it pots. So the wet waste does not go out anymore, it turns into compost. We have a bag(and a bit more may be) of compost ready to use from a years' wet waste - significantly reduced in size as well.

It appears that 80% of the waste from any household is wet waste and Bangalore city creates around 250 tonne of wet waste daily! BBMP spends over 400 crore to dump this(Source: Hindu Property Plus, 2nd October). Imagine the significant reduction in waste if everyone were to do it at home(source). While there are arguments in favor and against of doing it by your apartment or city, the best way for a sustainable world is to do the composting at home, at the source. It avoids transportation - from your house to a small vehicle, then to the large trucks and to the dumping ground. And separating the wet from other types of waste is a laborious job. So it is best processed at home instead of sending it out. This is completely in your control as well - there are no other dependencies except the vessels needed.

But then that was the way things worked earlier till the big cities came into being. Then you needed to move everything to the cities including people(rich and the poor) from all over. And we started moving the waste out and get water and other resources from elsewhere. The holy grail of centralized urban development designed to use the natural resources rapidly and dirty the environment by dumping waste and sewage everywhere.

While there are challenges and constant attention needed to compost at home, the DailyDump products that are designed with the urban dwellers in mind, makes it far more easier than you think. And the problem of waste management in cities are getting far more complex than you can imagine!

You can read our composting experience here - a drop in the ocean may be, nevertheless our contribution!