Colonel P. Isaac wants to create a garbage free-environment. And he believes it is possible. He propagates a simple and practical method to make this happen.
He segregates the garbage at his home under two categories - ‘wet’, and ‘dry’. The former, which is done on a daily basis, includes vegetable, food wastes and flowers and the latter, done once in a week, includes polythene covers and bags, milk covers and batteries. “I compost the kitchen waste and use it as organic manure for the plants.
People at residential apartments can practise this method in their balconies, veranda or under the staircases. Thereby, we can reduce garbage at home by 50 per cent and the garbage-occupation-space of land refills will be reduced to 20 cents rather than an one acre,” Isaac, founder-president, Earth for Tomorrow Society, says.
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The Colonel uses a terracotta garbage convertor to compost kitchen waste. After forty-five days, kitchen waste is converted into manure which could be used for the plants.
This method ensures that not much space is occupied at the homes, he points out. “I motivate people living in residential apartments to grow plants in their balconies to make our Earth a clean and greener place,” he says.
Apart from this, in his kitchen, he has hung three bags, classifying them as ‘reuse’, ‘recycle 1’ and ‘recycle 2’. The reuse bag contains plastic covers, recycle 1 contains newspapers and plastic items such as cool drink bottles, which can be sold and reused, and recycle 2 contains polythene bags and milk covers to be given to the conservancy staff, once in a week, to reduce home-garbage.
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To create awareness about the importance of water conservation, he puts bacteria in the sewage system, the bacteria eats the solid and cleanses the water.
“By using a motorised pump, the cleansed water is used to water the plants and this helps in conservation of water,” he says.
He has also cultivated a terrace garden consisting of more than 200 vegetable and herbal plants and a variety of cactus plants.
P. Isaac can be contacted at 9840466325.