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Mumbai: Air India’s green mission takes off, 3,500kg organic waste recycled
Source: Hindustan Times, Date: , 2017
Hindustan Times, Mumbai, Feb 2017: In less than a year, the environment wing of
the country’s national carrier in Mumbai has converted more than 3,500 kg of
garden and kitchen waste into 500kg of organic manure, thereby saving it from
going to overburdened dumping grounds. In an attempt to find alternative means
of disposing green waste, close to 200 volunteers from different departments of
the old airport complex and Air India building, Kalina, have been carrying out
vermiculture - using earthworms for generating compost, referred to as
vermicomposting – within the complex. Segregating and recycling waste at source
is essential because recurring fires at the city’s dumping grounds in 2015 and
2016 were caused by mixed toxic garbage catching fire owing to high methane
content. Apart from a host of pollutants released in the air when mixed garbage
burns, liquid residue from the charred remains can contaminate ground water.
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