Owing to the growing population, the issue of garbage has turned ugly. Everywhere we find open grounds and roads littered with trash and waste disposals. It is increasing day by day, and it rots and smells in the free ground, posing a risk and health hazards to the residents.
The use of plastics has turned the situation grim because plastics don’t disintegrate or destruct. Therefore animals are dying by consuming plastics, river and ocean beds are littered with plastics, and the life in water bodies are succumbing. The plastics clog the drain. The use of plastics in our life has turned the situation more nightmarish.
Garbage disposal has become a problem and now when the situation has become alarming, few agencies and NGO’s have started the initiative of collecting the garbage for making compost which can eliminate the use of chemicals and pesticides in agriculture. With its use, maximum garbage biodegradable portions will be used for a better purpose to give organic food to people.
Start Compositing at Home
Charity begins at home. Instead of waiting for someone to collect, you can sort too few measures to make your compost at least; you will get fresh manure for your kitchen garden and society garden. If we all adopt the same in our household, at least our daily kitchen waste can be put into use, and less garbage will be there for the agencies, corporations, and municipalities to manage. Therefore waste management will be easy. We won’t have to step on the litters on the roadside, and we will have a beautiful garden and fresh air.
How to Prepare Compost
Place three buckets in your kitchen utility area, 1st one for the dry garbage, 2nd one for the wet garbage and the 3rd one for the general waste.
Segregate all dry waste such as peels, fruit skins, papers, fabrics, twigs, leaves, etc. in dry garbage bucket. All wet waste into the wet garbage and the rest waste such as plastics, medicinal waste, bottles, glass, etc. that cannot be added in compost in the general garbage bucket.
You can take three big drums for the process and place it on the rooftop or in the garden area, away from children and pets.
Take one big fiber drum, place a few newspapers beneath and topple with some sandy soil. Spread out the wet garbage and cover with dry waste. Repeat the process every day until the drum fills. Finally, cover it with soil and pierce holes into it for the air ventilation. Leave it for 45-60 days, much depends upon the climatic conditions, the dry climate will process fast, and the weather condition laden with moisture will take a long time to prepare.
Repeat the process for the next drum. Segregation is essential, and if you have a large open garden area in your house, you can make a pit and place the dry and wet waste in the same manner with the drum. The compost processing will be faster in pits.
In 45-60 days, your black gold is ready to use. It will change to deep black color, mix in your kitchen garden soil, and see the difference in the plants flowering and growth.
If you have more compost than you can use, you can distribute among your neighbors, or if you wish to go for a small enterprise, you can start selling compost manure. The wastes which we found to be a headache is worth the segregation, and the final product is not less than gold for the community. A homemaker can earn from her kitchen wastes; isn’t it mind-blowing.
Spread Awareness in Your Community
These days, the environmentalist and social activists are preaching about waste management. You can share your experience and spread awareness, and you can show them the reward of your little effort. If each member of your community engages themselves into it, you won’t have heaps of garbage in your locality and your society will be healthy and free from insects and mosquitoes.
How the NGO’s are working to Tackle Waste Management
In metro cities, they have started distributing two buckets to each family for wet and dry waste disposal. Before that, they spread awareness by showing programs about how they use these waste products properly to revive maximum benefit. They collect wet and dry garbage separately every day.
All the fresh peels and vegetable waste are given to cattle’s, and livestock’s, the non-vegetarian wastes to dogs and the rest are segregated for compost on a big scale and then it is distributed for agricultural use to the farmers nearby.
The end product of waste is Gold for all of us, in a way, it is the same as rain cycle, what we throw as Garbage, we get as Manure, useful for food production of a vast population.
Agencies & Companies are At Work
The environmentalist, companies and other social activists have come together on the same page to conserve the planet and save from destruction. Destruction is more because of non-biodegradable wastes, and it is a matter of enormous concern. The concept of zap trash away model is in progress.
At many places, incinerator is being used for medical waste, e-waste, plastic waste, and other hazardous wastes by extreme heat.
The research is in the process to find out the ways to recycle the waste and use to make chemical energy, use it in the formation of roads and tiles. It is in the preliminary stage, but gradually, the positive results will push it forward to implement worldwide.
Landfilling by the Garbage
Garbage can be used for landfill, the construction plots required to raise at the existing road level. It is an age-old practice, previously razed building material was used, but now we can use garbage for landfilling. It stinks so it is better to use in the open areas where residents are not living else it will be a ground of infestation of mosquitoes and flies. Dry garbage, which is challenging to disintegrate, should be used for landfill, and the wet waste can be used for the open garden spaces. Both wet and dry will be dumped to use.
Care should be taken to use lime, bleaching powder, and another natural agent to get the location free from stinking smells. Garbage and sand and soil can be put in layers so that the waste is covered and does not give a foul odor.
Conclusion
Due to urbanization, growing population, and shrinking land, garbage has become a nuisance in towns and cities compared to villages. In villages, still the cattle’s and the livestock feed on vegetable peels, rotten vegetables, grass, and other healthy waste.
