Coonoor turns wet waste into high quality compost
The Hindu
‘The compost can be used for organic farming as it has very low heavy metal content’
The Coonoor Municipality (CMC), in partnership with local NGO Clean Coonoor, has managed to produce high quality compost from wet waste generated in the town’s households and market.
The first batch of compost, weighing around 10 tonnes, was produced in a relatively short period of 10 days, said P.J. Vasanthan, trustee of Clean Coonoor.
Mr. Vasanthan said that usually compost made from municipal waste can only be used on lawns and gardens due to the presence of heavy metal content in waste collected from households. “However, due to excellent source segregation that is enforced by the sanitary workers employed by the municipality, it is possible to produce high-quality manure,” said Mr. Vasanthan.