Hi all,
I had a fantastic day that day. The morning was spent at the State Bank of India and the famous Bangalore Club (one of the oldest in India, founded in 1868. Winston Churchill was a member and apparently still owes Rs.13) to look at food waste composting. Both these organisations have inititives in place to compost food waste and garden waste on site, solving both a potential waste problem and creating employment and a valuable compost. This compost is used to maintain the lawns, trees and gardens and surplus is either sold or given away free to members. Both projects are self sustaining and use very simple low tech solutions that could be easily adopted by many businesses.
In the afternoon I visited an E-waste recycling enterprise. 10 years ago a one-man band scrap dealer saw the huge quantities of E-waste being scrapped when only a few components within the machines were actually broken. He now has a city wide scheme of bins for e-waste that is collected and either repaired or broken down to the very last screw for recycling. The scheme creates local employment and provide training and counselling services for women in the local community.
I also met a group of rotarians who have personal projects in place to raise awareness of the benefits of composting at home.
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