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Green Initiatives in Bengaluru
Dr Sandhya BBMP
Bengaluru
3R Principle
• Refuse and Reduce – one time disposables, plastic bags, Straws, Mineral water bottles
• Reuse
• Recycle
Zero Waste Wedding / Party
Black Gold - Compost
Grow Safe Vegetables and Greens
Activated Microbial Bioclean
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Vegeable peels, fruit peels, used coffee/tea powder Pooja Flowers Non vegetarian waste (Chicken, Fish, Large Animals) – both cooked and uncooked Left over food Dry leaves/twigs, fresh garden cuttings Shredding helps in faster decomposition No turning required
Easy Aerobic Composting
Easy Aerobic Composting
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Air-Water balance 50% browns Browns can be crushed dry leaves, microbial cocopeat like bioclean, regular coirpith, timber yard saw dust (not from plywood), compost Reuse harvested compost at 50:50 ratio with microbial cocopeat to reduce cost Grow safe vegetables, fruits, greens Donate compost to a nearby park
Aerobic Composting – Blue Drum 55 ltrs
Flowers from the temple also goes into the leaf composter.
Flowers used at the temple now go into the leaf composter instead of ending in the land fills.
Leaf Composter at Cubbon Park and Lalbagh
Composting leaves and flowers
Shakthi Maha Ganapathi Temple, Kalyan Nagar,
Bangalore
3,000kgs of Compost harvested in 1 year
50% of the project cost recovered
• Five leaf composters (5 ft diameter x 4 ft height)
• 1000kg per month waste composted at temple and not sent to landfill
• No one time disposables, No areca nut plates. Only banana leaves and leafy container
2.9 ft diameter x 4.5 ft height without Legs
Swacha Beedhi Garden Leaf Composter
• Includes 3 Bioclean blocks (5kg each)
• 1 liter Effective Microorganism (EM1) Solution
• 1kg Neem powder
• 12 cement blocks or 20 bricks to be provided
by customer to create a platform
• Installation and Training
150+ Leaf Composters across Bangalore
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25+ Temples Lalbagh Botanical Garden – 8 Leaf Composters Cubbon Park -8 Leaf Composters St Andrew Church 20 Apartments 25 Volunteers – Swacha Beedhi Leaf Composters – Adopting a street and neighbourhood
Community Composter
Made using MS Iron, perforated GI sheet coated with epoxy paint to minimize rusting.
1.5 meter width composter - 50kg kitchen waste with 1 Block (5kg) Bioclean - microbial cocopeat
About 80+ composters sold to apartments, layouts, corporates
Natural Cleaners (Bioenzyme)
•It’s a multipurpose cleaner which can be used to clean your floor, dishes, laundry and can be used to clean your pets too! •The post usage discharge is completely natural and even beneficial to the soil and water. The same water can be used to water your plants •Make your own cleaners at home, save our environment • It is easy on your pocket
How to make bioenzyme
• Jaggery (Gud) – 1 portion • Citrus peels - 3 portion
(Organge, Sweet lime, Lemon) • Water - 10 portion • Half tea spoon dry yeast
• One month fermentation in anaerobic conditions
Note: Papaya peels, Banana peels, Pineapple peels Whole/Rotten fruits can be added too Dry peels are fine too
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