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Why India’s solid waste management system needs Goclean Composter Machine?

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Introduction

Do you ever look at the landfill sites and think that Europe is far better than this?

It’s not like they don’t have landfills there, but not as much as India. The population is one key factor. However, we need to look at countries like Germany which has made recycling a common habit by rewarding its citizens with some cash every time they send a bottle, etc., for recycling.

Let’s understand the gaps in our Solid Waste Management, and how we can make it for good.

The State of Solid waste management in India

Did you know that out of 62 million tonnes of municipal solid waste generated per annum, only 43 million tonnes of waste is collected?

What’s more shocking is that only 11.9 MT of solid waste is treated & the rest 31 MT is dumped in landfills!

Probably that’s why you see so many landfills adding inches to them daily.

The one root cause of it is our excessive dependency on Centralized Waste Management. Let’s understand what it is.

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Centralized Waste Management – The ‘outdated’ approach

Centralized Waste Management simply refers to sending all your waste to municipal trucks, and then they take care of the rest.

However, there are particular challenges to this waste management system!

Our years-old ‘Different wastes, one pot’ approach makes it hard for the waste sites to separate the waste at the site.

This washes down all the possibilities of recycling, and thus, ultimately left to rot & undergo anaerobic decomposition to emit Greenhouse gasses.
Here’s what Sushanth Gade, Senior Manager – Planning & Operations for Hyderabad Integrated Municipal Solid Waste (HIMSW) has to say about the gaps in our Centralized Waste Management — “In W2E technology, we increase the calorific value of the waste and then burn it to create energy. But, the waste that countries like India produce does not have the calorific value required to do this process because about 70% of organic waste is water.”

So what’s the solution for it? That’s where Decentralized Waste Management comes into the picture.

Decentralized Waste Management

Decentralized Waste Management refers to the management of waste at the source, and eliminating the dependency on the municipal collection of garbage.

It includes the segregation of waste at the source and minimizes it if possible.

Here’s how it solves the problem:

Segregation at the source ensures that the waste that is being sent to the landfills can be treated efficiently.

Reducing it at the source with methods like giving your products to someone or composting the organic waste collected can actually help with problems like global warming & climate change.

Talking about composting, the institutions (schools/colleges, companies, temples, societies, etc.) who are one of the biggest contributors to organic waste, often face problem with adopting composting as a waste management solution.

It is mainly because the traditional composting methods takes time, space & efforts.

But what if we tell you there is a way with which these institutions can move towards a decentralized waste management model without much efforts.

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GoClean Organic Waste Composter – Perfect Decentralized Waste Management Method

GoClean Organic Waste Composters are a modern tech by Clean India Ventures that help or have helped many societies, companies, temples, etc., to adopt composting as the ultimate solution for their organic waste management.

Here are some key features of our GoClean Composters:

Converts organic waste into compost in 24 hours.
80% volume reduction of waste when compost is created.
Automatic, hence, minimizes the need of manual efforts.
Enclosed structure prevents bad odour from leaking out.
Sturdy stainless steel body ensures to keep it safe from any potential damage.

Here are some notable places where our unit is installed & doing wonders in waste management.

Statue of Unity, Gujrat

Baba Baidyanath Dham, Jharkhand

Badrinath Temple, Uttarakhand

GST Headquarters

Govt. Officers’ Colony, Sector-14A (Noida)

JPRA Colony, Ghaziabad (UP)

Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi

Hunar Haat, UP

Time Residency, Sec-63 (Gurgaon)

Is your organization dealing with loads of organic waste on daily basis?

Help them move towards sustainability along with cutting down on waste treatment costs with GoClean Organic Waste Composters.

To know more, contact us!

August 6, 2022 0 comment

Waste Management

Importance of solid waste management to make the environment better

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Solid waste management has been a matter of great concern for our country & the world for quite some time now. And, there’s a good reason to it.

As per current estimates, 65 million tonnes of waste is generated every year in India. However, only about 75-80% of it is collected, and out of that, only 22- 28% is processed and treated. And, to make the matter worse, the Municipal Solid Waste generated in India set to increase 7 times in the next 30 years.

The matter of concern here is not the waste generated, but the waste collected, and more importantly, the waste processed & treated being very low.

So how to change this picture?

This is where Decentralized Waste Management comes into play!

What is Decentralized Waste Management?

The Decentralized Solid Waste Management (DSWM) is a system that promotes a clean environment and hygienic living condition by

managing waste at source smartly for optimum waste processing & management.
reducing the quantity of waste at source to reduce the load from landfills.

Composting — The most efficient Decentralized Waste Management method

Traditional Method

Composting is probably one of the oldest waste management methods out there. However, it got lost in time, and the new waste management habits — like all trash, one bin — replaced it. These habits are the sole reason where we’re standing today.

Now’s the time to revive & adopt our traditional waste management method — Composting.

Composting, for those who don’t know, is a form of organic waste management. Traditionally, it was performed by burying organic waste into a pit, and within months or so, you have a compost ready which you can use to feed your soil as it replenishes nutrients in it.

Shortcomings

Though Traditional composting is an effective method of organic waste management, it isn’t the most efficient one.

Why?

The time it takes to make compost from organic waste.
The space you need for it.

These 2 factors are the reason why big institutions, who deal with loads of organic waste daily, don’t go for composting.

So, what’s the solution of it?

GoClean Composter — Modern way of composting

Big institutions, who were not getting into composting earlier because of these limitations, can now implement composting as a part of their waste management process with GoClean Composters.

Why GoClean Composter?

GoClean composter comes with a variety of features & highlights, that not only make it easy to use but also make it safe & reliable.

Here are those features:

Operation related

Fully Automatic, so just load and let it do its work while you sit & relax.
Processes your kitchen waste, food waste, floral waste & horticulture waste.
Converts waste into compost within 24 hours.
85-90% volume reduction of organic waste into high-quality compost.
No need to add any micro-organisms or anything else for composting.
Noiseless & Odorless.
No harmful gases are released.
No pathogens.

Durability

Stainless steel composting tank.
High-quality exterior panel.

For the User’s safety

For Power mode, heater & power-saving mode, and in-built indicators.

Internal mixing blades automatically stop when the top lid is open.

Contribution to Environment

It helps corporates to fulfil their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). For other institutions, they can highlight it as their move to sustainability.
Reduces the cost of waste disposal & treatment.
Resulted compost can used in your garden area to help keeping your premises green.
You can also sell compost, and could be an added stream of income.
It covers the 3R principle: Reduce waste, Recycle waste & Reuse waste.
It completes the ecological loop by sending food back to the soil.

Do you want to book our GoClean Composter for your institutions? Contact us today!

July 16, 2022 0 comment

Waste Management Solutions

How Decentralized Waste Management Solutions are the future?

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Today, the garbage that is being produced from each household and or industry has increased manifold. Not just the quantity, but also the variety of the waste produced from each location has multiplied without any resolution to fight the problem. Every country is facing a different kind of trouble in managing their garbage and is trying to come up with a permanent and persistent solution. One such approach that we can follow is decentralized waste management. Decentralized Solutions, can they be the future of Waste Management?

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Well, Decentralized Waste Management is all each community, locality, or society managing and processing their waste within their premise and not sending the same to a centralised large facility or often landfill. The principles that we need to understand behind decentralized waste management are waste management at the source make waste a resource and my waste in my backyard and not in someone else’s; this means that you segregate and process the waste by taking ownership of the waste and not force it upon someone else’s and let no one is affected by it. To make this happen, we can try and implement these methods:

Recycling Waste: The concept of recycling waste is followed by a huge chunk of the population in India to earn from the stuff sold, but when the people of India are aware of the fact that it doesn’t just help them earn money but also save them from a lot of pollution and after-effects of the ecological balance caused by the garbage. Recycling of waste is carried out by Kachrawalas, scrap dealers, etc.
Decentralized Composting: Innovative smart technology like GoClean (earlier known as GWR)are designed by Clean India Ventures Pvt Ltd. are helping many organizations (temples, localities, etc.) take the initiative to recycle, reduce and convert organic waste at source into organic manure and liquid fuel. The process involves hiring labor to segregate the waste and put it into the machine and the result is worth the expenses, at least the environment is being saved from excessive untreated garbage that is hurting the earth.
Vermi-Composting: This is a simple yet effective process that can be carried out in a household as the domestic waste is organic. It requires a small space to carry out vermicomposting. Organic household waste involves waste segregation, waste preparation, waste degradation, and finishing of waste for rapid degradation. Important to control the process of degradation by handling the procedure of temperature and moisture.
Small Scale Anaerobic Digestion (Bio-Gas): This is the most environmentally friendly technology to recover energy from organic waste. Biogas plant serves as a waste disposal technology and helps to solve solid waste environmental problems. This is a decentralized solution that is extremely appropriate to maintain ecological balance and meet the economic demand of the future, as it provides pollution-free environment efficient energy for cooking and lighting. This is a very successful technology in some parts of India and should be promoted extensively.

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Conclusion:

Solid Waste Management or any kind of waste management is a critical issue in India. It is important to have departments who can manage this, who are able to find the solutions, can manage the waste. Many governments across the globe are on the lookout for a solution to mitigate this critical issue, and most of the challenges of waste management and environmental sustainability are still unanswered.

The condition of the unauthorized settlements and slums in urban areas is even worse where the municipal waste management system is absent. The first and foremost step towards a better future is decentralized waste management solutions like biogas plants, vermicomposting, decentralized composting, and what not. The decentralized approach is one of the most effective ways to manage and solve the problems of waste management in India. People are changing their mindset too but implementing these changes helps us to reduce it.

December 21, 2020 0 comment

Horticulture Waste

Decentralize Horticulture Waste Management

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In a municipal precinct, heaps of horticulture waste may be found every day near parks, public places, and especially the green belts. Households after cleaning their houses throw all the waste on the road, they never give a thought to what that waste is turning into and how much harmful it is for the people living around there. In so many metropolitan cities dustbins have been kept to dump waste but still, people are having a habit of throwing litter on the road while traveling and walking. People can at least throw those things in the dustbin as with small droplets the whole lake is formed of waste. The large mounds of the waste are either made a bonfire by the caretakers or transported through trucks to landfill sites. There are so many individuals who are involved in lifting the roadside waste and cleaning the roads but they also store that waste at one place in the city, no measure step is taken by any authority. Till the time we individuals will not go and look after that waste and implementing some better steps for decomposing that or like cleaning that by yourself, we will not realize how much waste we are making unnecessary.

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Believing in spirituality and following it is such a divine thing but in the name of making holy river pollutants that is completely the reverse of it. There are so many rivers where people come from a large distance and then they do their prayer while flowing flowers and diyas into the river. It is perfectly said that these both get dissolved in water but everything has its own capacity. With such a huge population this can’t be true and each individual will go with the same thought. Some urban authorities tried to install big-sized incinerators on the outskirts of the city. These machines convert the horticulture waste into compost or combust it into ashes. But, practically, it has been seen that the capacity of such machines generally does not match with the quantity of horticulture waste that is cumulatively generated in a city at its various green sites.

These days younger generations in the form of startups are sensitive to preserving the environment from constant pollutants through some drives and are consistently looking out for some perfect way to deal with this growing major issue. People are already indulged in making the environment better every day but it will take some time as everything has reached heights and it will take some time to bring it back to normal. Many solutions are expensive, and yet do not guarantee effective remedies. Even if a city gets a very large capacity processor to cope with horticulture waste, the transportation of waste between the source of generation to the processing spot demands regular incurring of expenses.

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A new innovative reprocessor for horticulture waste is GWR which is an abbreviation of Green Waste Reprocessor. The best thing about this machine is that it is installed close to the point of waste generation, thereby, saving the burden of transporting the waste from the point of generation to the treatment site. Easy to install, it requires small space to set up and can be successfully operated by employing 2 or 3 semi-skilled laborers. GWR recycles the horticulture waste into rich compost which can be used to fertilize the farmland in an organic way. True, a city might require dozens of GWR to successfully reprocess the total horticulture waste, but only a decentralized model of dealing with waste can solve the problem effectively on a sustainable basis.

December 15, 2020 0 comment