Eco-friendly way to get rid of garbage

PUNE, MARCH 26: Since their tie-ups with Western Paques Ltd for controlling their garbage failed to takeoff as the company went into liquidation, both the Pune and Khadki Cantonment Boards have now decided to opt for vermiculture as an eco-friendly solution.

Until now, both the cantonment boards were disposing of their garbage through composting at their respective trenching grounds located at St Patrick’s Town and Kasarwadi respectively. Local residents living near the trenching ground in St Patrick’s Town fretted and fumed. Reputed institutions like the Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT) and Hotel Kalasagar made a big hue and cry in the Pimpri-Chinchwad township but it made little difference since the cantonment seemed to have no solution.

A city-based company, Pravin Vermiculture Pvt Ltd, has now approached both the cantonment boards offering to carry out a demonstration project to show that garbage can be satisfactorily converted into manure without emitting foul odour. Demonstrations at theKasarwadi trenching ground of the Khadki Cantonment Board (KCB) are already in a progress for the last two months and a recent visit by the elected members revealed that despite the huge quantity of garbage being dumped, there was no foul smell, flies or bird.