If the thought of the ‘tediousness’ of segregating your own waste,
let alone composting it, is keeping you from doing it, the Bruhat
Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) may offer a good reason to change
your mind. The Palike is pitching for a model that involves citizens
composting their waste and the civic agency buying it from them.

BBMP
Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad said the proposal, which will be
placed before the council soon, will be an incentive for citizens to
compost their own wet waste after segregation, thereby also reducing the
quantum of waste being collected. “It is very simple. It involves an
investment of Rs. 900 for which you get three buckets and coco peat,
which does not cost a lot. The manure that comes out of the exercise is
of very good quality,” said the commissioner, who has been composting
waste in his home.

Citizens can use the compost for their own
gardens and sell the excess to the BBMP, which plans to set up
collection centres on the lines of the Dry Waste Collection Centres,
which are present in almost all wards.

Though a rate is yet to be
fixed, the manure bought from citizens will be used for its 1,300 parks
or will be taken to one of its waste plants from where the Agriculture
Department is already picking up compost, he added.

BBMP Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad has been composting waste in his home for some time