Over 240 people turned up for the workshop held at Anna Adarsh College for Women in Anna Nagar.
Several of the residents had doubts about how to reduce waste and best practices for recycling and composting.
Navneeth Raghavan explained how composting can become a way of life if it is done regularly.
The three experts answered various questions on how to up-cycle and the different ways in which composting could be carried out in apartment complexes and on a community level.