The project is about demonstrating circular economy where food waste is converted into compost and returned back to soil for improving soil quality. It is also envisaged that apart from improving soil quality, the project will help in improving overall waste management, where organic waste will be composted and the other waste recycled to the extent possible, thereby significantly reducing the amount of waste going to the dumping ground. Our major role was to ensure that well segregated food waste is collected in compostable  bags and delivered to composting site.  The scope involves conducting awareness program on waste segregation and ensuring well segregated food (organic) waste from households, institutions and commercial areas are collected safely and delivered to composting site using certified compostable collection bags. Client wanted to demonstrate how food waste, collected and delivered to a commercial composting facility is transformed into a nutrient rich soil amendment (compost) and when applied into agricultural soils, can improve soil health, soil carbon content and a range of added benefits for West Bengal agriculture and horticulture. 

Our Services

• Detailed mapping of the area into residential, commercial, market and other areas
• Understand in detail existing waste collection and management practices
• Detailed waste audit to understand composition of waste and waste generation rate. Identification of waste constituents & measurement of weight (Quantity)
• Meeting with stakeholders to understand their perspective regarding waste segregation. 
• Training Self-Help Group ladies, volunteers for conducting baseline survey, door-to-door waste collectors (Van pullers)
• Baseline survey to understand the demography, habits, hobbies, willingness to segregate and volunteer for waste management
• Formation of area committee/identify volunteer, form groups using social media
• Identify & finalize logistics for waste transfer (wet/ organic waste) to composting sites
• Modification of waste collection facilities at households and at the collection point to facilitate segregation
• Conduct workshops, competitions (drawing, painting etc), workshops (gardening/ cooking), street plays at regular intervals
• Lessons learned and compilation of data Impact Assessment, model creation and replication
• Designing of tools to collect quantitative and qualitative baseline date through physical interaction with local communities at site. Physical Interaction with program stakeholders to understand program capabilities & challenges. Comparison of end line with baseline to understand the change brought about through the program.  
• Identification of gaps and recommendations for strengthening the program