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India: Turning trash into tomatoes

Residents are using vermicompost made from 3 tonnes of garbage to cultivate vegetables; the initiative has also spurred greater emphasis on recycling.

While many housing societies recycle garbage and use it for gardening, Kendriya Vihar Society in Moshi has gone a step ahead and is cultivating vegetables using vermicompost produced from trash accumulated in their homes.

The society, spread over 10 acres at Santnagar in Moshi Pradhikaran, has produced 700 packs of coriander and fenugreek so far and is now cultivating bitter gourd and tomato.

Said Subhash Gargote, a resident, "We cut down branches of trees on an acre and had over three tonnes of garbage. Not knowing how to dispose of it, we approached the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Coporation (PCMC). Prabhakar Taware, health officer of E Ward, advised us to compost the garbage as the society has two acres of open land."

Read more at Pune Mirror