Vimala
Via E-mail
Dear Vimalaji,
Vermicomposting would be a good method if you want faster and better results, but a lot of
care goes into maintaining the beds, taking care that worms survive. If you want to do it
at a community level, with an entire village taking care of it, my suggestion is that you
go in for a green manure composting pit, which is simpler, and in all probabilities,
people are already doing it. In fact, you can even leave out the gobar, which is
very precious, and simply cover every layer of your organic waste with soil. For more
details on composting, please get in touch with:
Dr. M. S. Murthy
Green World Associates
620 Sector 19, Pocket 2
Dwarka
New Delhi –110045
Ph: 25366571
My friend, Reetu Singh has an idea. She observed that people growing creepers and
weak plants such as tomato, cut trees to make stands or supports of the creepers. She is
very concerned that this would encourage cutting of trees. So she suggests an alternative
for this: recycled plastic support stands for the farmers. These have a longer life, cheap
and no maintenance. Can you let us know of a recycling unit that manufactures such
products with whom she can get in touch with and implement the idea.
Raksha Talwar,
New Delhi
Dear
Talwarji, your friend can get in touch with the following organisation in Delhi, who can
guide you further on this:
Bharati Chaturvedi
Chintan
238, Sidharth Enclave
New Delhi – 110 014
Ph: 24314478
You can also get in touch with the following plastic recycler, with whom you can
perhaps work out something:
Jay Bhagwan Bansal
Karan Plastics
A265 Narela Industrial Area
Near Kundli Border, Delhi
Ph: 27782393-94
Apart from segregating garbage into
dry and wet, what else can I do to reduce the plastic menace? Also, I would like to read
some articles pertaining to this topic from your archives. I would like to know the impact
that plastic causes to our environment.
Mahalakshmi
via E-mail
Dear Mahalaksmiji,
The most important thing that you can do at an individual level is to reduce your use of
plastic as much as possible and reuse whatever you can. The other important thing that you
can do is to read up more on the subject, and then approach either the manufacturers or
the government with suggestions. Suggestions can be sent to the companies themselves or to
newspapers. Please read Gobar Times of Nov 30, 1999,
in archives of www.gobartimes.org. Take a look at
the special edition of Gobar Times on plastics prepared by school students of
Delhi, available in www.gobartimes.org. There are
three very useful books on plastics by Bharati Chaturvedi. Write to her (address in the
previous letter). If you are a subscriber of Down To Earth, you can also search the
archives of www.downtoearth.org.in. There are plenty of interesting articles on
plastic and solid waste.
