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How to deal with Wet Waste
Welcome to the world of
Composting and Waste-to-Energy
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Updated : -07-Jun-2015

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What do you change?
From this… …to This
wet waste
organics
kitchen waste
compost
compositing
biogas plant cooking gas
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 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?

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x Soiled food covers
x Sanitary Waste such as napkins and diapers
x Cigarette butts
x 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 a
take 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)

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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!
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Disposal : Transfer daily to home/community composter
or bio-gas plant. In apartments daily door-to-door
collection of wet waste by housekeeping is a best practice
* Collect Wet Waste in Green Bin in the
2 Bins 1Bag method

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Home Composting Options
Use Compost …
- As a Fertilizer
- As a Soil Conditioner
- For Soil erosion control
More :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uses_of
_compost
http://www.dailydump.org/products/leave-it-pots
Daily Dump: Leave-it-Pot or Khamba
Did you know: A firm in Bangalore has an order from Japan to export 2500
tonnes of compost to enrich the coastal areas devastated by 2011 tsunami.
http://www.bangaloremirror.com/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=1&contentid=201201192012011905082181299adafb5
Use Compost …Smart Bin: Home Composting

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Community Composting Options
http://vennarorganic.com/index.html
10 to 170 Kgs
2.5 to 16HP
Purchase Cost (4 lacs
upwards) , Space and
Maintenance needs to be
considered
Vennar - OWC
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http://www.dailydump.org/community-waste-management-final
Daily Dump - Aaga
15 Kgs per day
0 HP
low cost and low
maintenance
http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Tumbling-Composter
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Biogas from Wet Waste
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http://www.niecrest.in/
Biogas plants from
1-150 kgs. per day
for homes,
communities and
institutions
NIE-CREST GPS –BioUrja
Biogas plants from
100 kgs – 3 Tons.
per day for
communities and
institutions
http://www.greenpowersystems.co.in/#!the-biourja1
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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

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Happy Segregation,
Composting, Energy Generation
and Recycling!
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