Meet Sanjay. He is the Director of Jan Adhar, a social service organization in Latur. He is recognized as a local pioneer for innovating partnerships to make sense and cents out of waste.
Unfortunately, his projects are all shut down because his organization was outbid in the municipal tender for waste collection in Latur by a waste company from Dubai. He is organizing locals to overturn this. here they are using an adapted rickshaw and keeping wet and dry in different parts because Sanjay had been working on initiatives to turn plastics into shreddings for recycling and the organics for biobriquettes for burning in foundry. All of that is shut down now though.
The adapted rickshaw is pushed rather than cycled by the lady since she wears a saree. This version actually has a latch for tipping it back - the rickshaw has two axles in the back to allow this.
We went to visit the Latur dump. They were working on some compost acceleration liquids with a local PhD student named Sachin. That is shut down now though.
On the left is a display version of their hand-operated biomass briquette press and on the right is a machine sitting unused in the room they used to shred plastics for recycling.
The local farmers recently gained some legal ground in gaining recompensation from the local government for bringing a dump site onto their lands. Apparently some farm animals were getting sick from "leaching and airborne contamination" according to Sanjay. Here are some locals with farm animals feeding off the dump.
Since hearing from Malti Gadgil at Swach about the issue of tranfer points for waste and allowing for segregation employing wastepickers while maintaining a waste-invisible city, I have been thinking about street presence of objects and purpose.
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