- A Coonoor-based civil society group took over the town’s solid waste management five years ago, transforming the open municipal dumpyard into a resource recovery centre.
- A garden now flourishes where the dumpyard once stood, aiming to break the stigma around waste as something to be avoided.
- At the facility, waste is segregated and processed, producing 50 tonnes of compost from wet waste each month. This compost is sold in the market, including to the horticulture department which distributes it to farmers for free.
A manicured garden with blooming flowers is arguably the last thing one would associate with a municipal dumpyard. Yet, an about 10,000 sq ft garden skirts Coonoor town’s solid waste management centre at Ottupattarai. “We thought of a garden to break the stigma around waste. The thought that it’s unsightly and needs to be avoided has to change,” says Samantha Iyanna, one of the founders of Clean Coonoor, a Coonoor-based civil society group, that runs the facility…….read more click here
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