Project of Mumbai

Systematic Slum Community Waste Management

Place : Chandivali, Andheri (E)

About the community

 Family - Around 100 slum dwellings next to water pipe line (500 people)
 Amount of Wet Garbage (Estimate) – 10kg/day

Situation before project

Slum dwellers threw garbage attracting rats, street dogs, mosquitoes, flies etc. which is breeding
ground for epidemics. This cause pollution of neighboring area and also Mithi river about 20feet
from slum running parallel to slum. Also was the great threat to water pipeline supplying water
to L and K (E) Wards.

Facilities

 3 plastic dust bin

 2 block base composting pit
 Community open space (garden, previously it was dumping)

Activities (October, 2006 onwards)

 Cleaning up community dumping place to green open space

 Households awareness through sensitizing
 Interviewed by IBN TV programme
 Maintaining of vermicomposting continuing till date

Challenges

 40% of residents were not willing to accept the compost at community. They did not
want to keep wet garbage around them.
 Gentle persuasion and seeing the garbage converted into compost after 45days changed
their attitude.
 Some bad odour occurs when transferring to composting pits.

Processes

 Collected from the households daily or put by residents after cooking.

 Cleaning staff inoculates garbage with EM active.
  One bin fills in 8-10days.
 Once in 1.5-2months the collected wet garbage is transfer to the composting pits
containing earthworms.

Feedbacks

 “Accha lagta hai (It’s nice).” - School girl

 It’s not much trouble to us to throw food waste to common dust bin. Previously we threw
home waste just in front of the house, but now the dry garbage are collected by the
cleaning staff and wet garbage we throw to the bin. Not much problem.
 Since the pit cover is net, sometimes children put plastic package dusts in it we need to
remove those for the processing.
 Each process of 45days result in 40-50kg compost used for greening of community
environment.

Collaborators

 Community Cleaning Staff

 Garbage Concern Composting Staff
 Janvi Charitable Trust (Implementation)
 Nilmara Niketan School of Social Work (Planning)

Place was full of household waste…

After the cleaning up entire dumping place, Bins came for throwing food waste
Community composting pit has settled. Don’t throw plastic inside!

Pits are for making compost

Sit and talk in this comfortable ambience!

 
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Systematic Slum Community Waste Management

Place

Chimad Pada Market , Maral Naka, Andheri (E)

Target

 Market and Family

 Amount of Garbage (Estimate)
 – 200kg vegetable, 200kg born
Facilities

3 concrete pits basement constructed by BMC

Activities (November, 2007 onwards)

 Sensitization, Awareness to vendors and localities at school

 Setting up Composting pit
 Segregation and composting

Challenges

Since the pit is located next to the market, a lot of vegetable waste and non-vegetable waste
accumulates

Although Cleaning staffs who are working under DVY are collecting money from households,
the public make them work for cleaning up drainage without tools or make them throw their
waste to the common place etc. to pay. To get local staffs in decent salary is difficult.

BMC dust bins’ wheels were taken and sold, the proper collection materials are required.

Feedbacks

Although the area was submerged the water when the flood came, people’s practices have not
changed. So a lot of garbage were collected at that time. Awareness for the segregation has done,
however since there are no double bin, and also BMC is carrying everything all together, it will
take time to the public practices to change.

Collaborators

 BMC (Set up the pits, Garbage collection)

 Sanjeevani Charitable Trust (Community Cleaning)
 Garbage Concern (Composting)
 DHL (Funding)
 Para – public and market (Segregation)
Vegetable waste come from neighbour market and households

Concrete pits base were constructed

Dust bin need to prevent from stolen

 
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Systematic Slum Community Waste Management

Place

Hanumaan Nagar, Andheri (W), Mumbai

Target

 Family
 Amount of Garbage (Estimate) - 50g perperson

Facilities
  2 block base composting pit
 These are located in front of community toilet which everyone come and pass everyday

Activities

 Households (women and children) awareness through sensitizing the issue with puppet
 Setting up the composting pits
 Interviewed by IBN TV programme
 Maintaining of vermicomposting continuing

Challenges

 Lack of commitment
 Lack of financial support sustaining the activities
 Interference of Political party

Feedbacks

“I was impressed when we went to see Chandivali project, then we wanted to do in our place
also.” (Mahira Mandal)

Collaborators

 Community Clean Staff

 Mahira Mandal (Local Woman’s group)
 Garbage Concern Composting Staff

Start from awareness with big laugh!

Segregation of waste

Wet garbage goes to Compost pits

 
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Systematic Slum Community Waste Management

Place

Film city, Goregaon

Target

 Community wet garbage

 Household wet garbage

Facilities

 Plastic compost pits

 Garden Fork,
 Sieve Tools were provided by Creative Handicraft

Activities (December, 2007 Onwards)

 NGO Creative Handicraft was working at the community and women were trained
sawing etc.
  Garbage Concern also doing vermiculture just nearby the village and some community
people were already involved.
 We collaborate with them and started from 3 household in the village.
 Before the project starts, they just throw the waste outside the house, it is kind of jangle
area.

Challenges

 Women are busy for their work (teaching sawing), household work, and children’s care.
Thus cannot concentrate on only composting.
 Dry wastes are scattered on the ground.

Feedbacks

 When it started, I felt its problematic, but as processing, I liked it.

 I’m not putting food waste because I afraid that insects to come.
 I'll transfer this practice to the others at our centre
 It’s good because we do not need to going out for working, we can use available waste at
here and make profit out of waste.

Collaborators

 Creative Handicraft (Facilities, Tools provision)

 Garbage concern (Supervising)