While the civic agencies battle with the city's mounting garbage and overflowing landfill sites, in the middle of the thickly populated east Delhi, a family hardly generates any waste.
"All it took was a visit to a friend who was using the waste to make 'black gold'," said Priyanka Dev, a housewife at Pushpanjali, while holding the rich compost that she has prepared from last month's garbage. "Most of our waste is now used in the kitchen garden."
Maids had to be taught about the change by working together for the first few weeks, children had to be led by example while adults had to be reminded.
Such efforts can be replicated by all and help the over burdened civic authorities.
Read more of this in a report by Paras Singh published in Times of India....
