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August 30, 2008 | 01:31 PM
Garbage recycling in Mumbai : an appeal
Sanjeevani Bhelandi sent this in. It's a really important issue in Mumbai, which is fast turning into an untenable city falling apart at the seams. Pleas support FORCE if you can. Sanjeevani is a beautiful singer famous in her own right and you can visit her website at www.sanjeevani.com
"Garbage is another grave urban issue strangely not being taken seriously. Mumbai garbage dumps are full. I know a remarkable lady Ms Poonam Huddar who runs an NGO called FORCE (forum for re-clycling communities and environment). She lives adjacent to the Deonar garbage dump and started this movement fed up of the daily stink. Garbage segregation is the only solution to this monsterous issue. Convert wet waste into manure through vermiculture and recycle dry one. FORCE encourages buildings to compost their wet garbage and gives employment to ragpickers. Garbage segregation at source also gives dignity to the lives of our rag pickers who otherwise have to rummage thru garbage for their livelihood. I personally put my kitchen waste like cucumber peels,methi,coriander stems etc into my pots and find my plants growing with so much vigour as they get fresh,free manure.there are no mosquitoes,no stink unlike what many people doubt. There is such poor awareness about this issue it is apalling. The open garbage bins on every corner of our roads are health hazards breeding infections,rats,mosquitoes.and in the rains clog drains. I admire the work of this simple middle class frail woman who works tirelessly to give us a cleaner Mumbai. Please lets all segregate garbage,put our kitchen veggies in our pots.we can grow our own tulsi,pudinah,kadhipatta,mirch(I do). Garbage is gold if seperated. Selling the dry waste generates income. Also rich manure is created thru composting. Dumping is not the correct way to disposing garbage. Burning causes pollution. Right way is to recycle thru segregation. Shekharji,your picture prompted me to spread word about this issue.
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The poor as it is, have merely much garbage in life, they live with such basics of life
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whoes job is it then?
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crap of the so called rich, educated, well travelled, well informed people?
ha! ha!
Thankyou Shekharji for posting the issue and your kind appreciation of my talent.
Just adding some info on FORCE:
FORCE has a website www.forceindia.org
their numbers are 9820421039 and 32931656
If you can convince your society members to start vermicomposting in your compound,you can contact FORCE,they'll construct the pit(6x3x2feet) and send their qualified staff to manage the composting for you regularly.The society can use the manure for its own garden,and sell the rest.The ragpickers who have FORCE i-cards,come twice a week and collect the dry waste.I failed to convince my own society about both vermicomposting and rainwater harvesting.they feared foulodour,said earthworms will crawl out..neither is true.many societies ban potted plants saying it spoils the paint.I put my pots in an aluminium trough,so the water doesn't spoil the external walls and I can continue to feel connected to Nature when my pudinah grows wild and my jaswand smiles.
Apparently the central govt is still undecided on a strategy that will direct the Municipal corporation.tab tak,lets take steps at the micro level,else Mumbai will be buried under the 7,500 tons of garbage it generates daily
deepest regards,
sanjeevani
This is such a good idea. Thankyou Sanjeevani for being so enterprising about this issue. I hope you get more and more 'societies' to get creative with the garbage they generate. It takes so little but saves the earth one trash can a day.
Shekhar, just picked up that you are the creative director behind 'Live Earth' at Mumbai on Dec 7th.I'm absolutely thrilled and excited for you. Best Wishes.Let us know how we could help with spreading the news and key messages.
http://www.liveearth.org/?cat=44.php
Cheers
Deepak
The Government should take a part in sorting out India's trash problem. They dont do much and should spend some of their military budget helping the cities out.
(PS Shekur you spell Thru,,, Through. Not thru lol)
Shekar You spell thru,, Through not thru. Nice work keep up the good work Shekar
We look down on the western world for reasons many
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They have qualites too which is commendable
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awareness
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courtesy
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responsibility
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Throw their garbage in green bags to recycle, black bags for other waste
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timely collection of disposed stuff
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why do we have to run up hill only running up the economy ladder and not our basic needs
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for a healtheir, cleaner country I wonder
Hiya Shekhar
POizen urrf Jhandu balm where are you?
Lol