When we can nurture lives, would we still need to kill?

1. Operation Green Gold
how a little inconvenience in the
kitchen can make a BIG difference
to our lives all around

2. the pilot site: Vaishali, Ghaziabad
• Ghaziabad currently generates 876 tonnes of
municipal waste every day that’s dumped into
the nearest landfill
• With dense construction and infills all around,
the landfills are getting saturated
• Stench and toxic dust rising from these garbage
heaps is vitiating the air quality
• The problem is all the more acute in Vaishali
b’coz of its proximity to Ghazipur landfill site and
lots of garbage piling up within the neighborhood

3. the pilot site: Vaishali, Ghaziabad
• Besides the storm water drain on one side and
Hindon river canal on other are getting choked
with industrial effluents, garbage and sewage
which can soon make the stench bearable in this
otherwise well-developed neighborhood in the
catchment area of a Metro Rail Station which
currently is the terminal station.
• In a 2-month public consultation, there is a
significant intent to solve the crises even if the
immediate wish is to find the low hanging fruit of
finding yet another landfill.

4. Current Scenario
Now that the landfills
are saturated
Picking Up Trash
by Hand, and
All kinds of organic, Yearning for Dignity
inorganic and toxic – New York Times, Sept.
waste are stuffed into 2007 headlines
a polythene bag and
collected by the
garbage handler Lots of garbage is ending
up on the Main Street

5. Garbage on the Main Street

6. Should they have books in their hands?

7. Made in India?

8. No weddings in garbage village
BANGALORE: Young men from
Mavallipura, off Yelahanka, are facing the
prospect of permanent bachelorhood - not
because they are not suitable boys, but
because brides are turning up their noses
at their village. For Mavallipurastinks. It is
Bangalore's landfill, a huge
garbage mountain. – Times of India, 26
May, 2012

9. Operation Green Gold Scenario
Household Audit
Did you know
that 27% of
the waste
stream is yard
Placement of right size clippings and
food scraps?
bins at the right place
ONE for vegetarian waste
TWO for non-vegetarian waste Deeper pit – longer
decomposition
THREE for plastic, paper, non-toxic etc
FOUR for toxic waste – batteries,
CFL, CDs etc.
FIVE for bio-medical – diapers, napkins,
syringes etc.

10. Operation Green Gold Scenario
A tapering bucket shaped stainless steel bin with a handle
Veg. knob at top to lift the lid. This is usually fitted into a basketball
Non
Veg net like hoop clamped on the wall at an ergonomic height –
typically at the level of the kitchen slab.
Veg.
Non-Veg
The household green waste is put into a larger
steel drum and carried on a cart every morning
with sunrise to the Composting Pit.

11. Operation Green Gold
When we can nurture lives, would we still need to
kill?