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Ultra-Low-Cost Composting with EM

Ultra-Low-Cost Composting with EM. Mrs Almitra H Patel, Member Supreme Court Committee for Solid Waste Management 50 Kothnur, Bangalore 560077 almitrapatel@rediffmail.com. Compost can be made in two ways :. Aerobic and Anaerobic. Most widely used for SWM today :

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Ultra-Low-Cost Composting with EM

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  1. Ultra-Low-Cost Composting with EM Mrs Almitra H Patel, Member Supreme Court Committee for Solid Waste Management 50 Kothnur, Bangalore 560077 almitrapatel@rediffmail.com

  2. Compost can be made in two ways : Aerobic and Anaerobic

  3. Most widely used for SWM today : Wind-rows are wetted with cowdung-water + rock phosphate or with composting biocultures and turned frequently. Energy - intensive turning adds to compost cost. Aerobic composting is the most proven method

  4. Anaerobic is best for homogeneous wet wastes like sewage sludge It works like a gobar-gas unit and needs much water, finely chopped uniform feed, space for slurry drying, and a user of the gas. Waste-shredding needs much energy and maintenance. Digesters get choked on non-uniform mixed city wastes containing non-biodegradables. It is good for waste-minimisation at factory canteens (e.g. BEL Bangalore).

  5. Each day’s garbage is unloaded in rows

  6. Bio-cultures ir 5% Fresh Cowdung solution is sprayed on raw garbage, ~ 200 litres / ton

  7. The sprayed heap is shaped into a windrow by JCB

  8. A windrow of 6-7 ft height is best. The height shrinks with time.

  9. The windrow is left undisturbed for 60 days and turns into compost inside

  10. The outer uncomposted insulating layer forms the core of a new heap while the inner compost is sieved for sale

  11. City compost works wonders for improving saline soils.

  12. Unsieved City Compost is collected freely at Pune….

  13. …though plastic in unsieved compost is bad for soil: Rainwater is poorly absorbed, seeds cannot germinate well. That is why keeping ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ wastes unmixed at source is so important !

  14. 8% by weight of bitumen is added by a patented KK blower into hot-mix asphalt plants. This gives greater durability and fatigue life... more resistance to rutting in summer and reduced low-temperature cracking, “even under adverse water-logging conditions” says the Central Road Research Institute in its Nov 2002 study. Shredded waste plastic makes wonderful tar roads

  15. Encourage ward-wise purchase at source. Cities must provide such spaces for rag- pickers to collect, sort and store it for bulk shipment, as at PCMC Plastic should be kept out of compostable waste

  16. Ragpicker shantytowns spring up at processing yards….

  17. …unless neat recycling units are provided as at PCMC for use by Mahila Sanghas.

  18. Recycling both wet and dry wastes is very economical Decentralised EM composting at Bangalore of 50 tippers a day cost Rs 1 lac startup capital + Rs 1.3 lac p.m. operating cost for Month 1-2, then 10% less per month as compost income starts coming in. Sieving cost will be extra. For recycling all types of plastics + polystyrene, preferably Wardwise, Rs 1 to 9 lakhs capital cost for 8 - 40 kgper hour melting capacity.

  19. Any city can start immediately.When can you begin decentralised composting ??

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