Organic Waste Management

The Benefits of Organic Composter Machines & Why You Should Consider Installing One

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What is composting?

Composting is the process of using living organisms to break down organic matter into a usable form. The result of this process is called compost. Compost holds moisture, which helps plants grow. It also retains nutrients and helps keep your garden healthy.

How does composting work?

Microorganisms break down organic matter, and the more time you give them—the better your compost will be. The faster you’re able to turn your kitchen scraps into compost, the better the quality of your soil will be.

Read Also : Why India’s solid waste management system needs Goclean Composter Machine?

Benefits of GoClean Organic Waste Composter

GoClean organic waste composter is a breakthrough in efforts to find safe and environmentally friendly technologies for waste treatment. It is a solution to the shortcomings of traditional composting techniques, which was time-consuming, stinking, and which took up a lot of space. There are many other issues relating to the traditional technique that it addresses.

GoClean composter has many benefits that have drawn the attention of many of its users. The machines can compost garbage continually and are not loud, smelly, or infested with rodents, bugs, or flies. Their volume reduction efficiency is in the range of 75 to 80%.

Fast processing:-
It processes organic waste more quickly than conventional methods do because the machine technology needs less time to complete the steps. Composting organic waste frees up time that may be put to better use, which translates to financial savings.

No secondary pollution-:
The machine technique does not produce any secondary pollution. Additionally, it has no smell and doesn’t have any hazardous properties.

Fully automatic-:
It is completely automated, which reduces the need for operational personnel. It can be run by one person, frequently part-time.

Lessens the need for other environmental waste treatment methods-:
It lessens the need for additional environmentally friendly waste treatment techniques because the machine technology may compost organic waste without a landfill, an incinerator, or any other compost treatment method.

Takes up less floor area-:
The machine is often tiny, and because of the excellent mechanical treatment equipment, it typically uses less room than the conventional composting process.

Durable-:
It is long-lasting because it is constructed with a stainless steel tank that can last more than 20 years.

Read Also: Waste Management in Apartments and Residential Societies

An increasing number of public and private organizations as well as individuals have learned about its benefits, and are resorting to using them to recycle and convert their waste in order to relieve pressure on landfills.

If you also aim to become such an organization, one who adopts eco-friendly methods to cut down carbon emissions, then GoClean composter is your buddy.

August 24, 2022 0 comment

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Why India’s solid waste management system needs Goclean Composter Machine?

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Introduction

Do you ever look at the landfill sites and think that Europe is far better than this?

It’s not like they don’t have landfills there, but not as much as India. The population is one key factor. However, we need to look at countries like Germany which has made recycling a common habit by rewarding its citizens with some cash every time they send a bottle, etc., for recycling.

Let’s understand the gaps in our Solid Waste Management, and how we can make it for good.

The State of Solid waste management in India

Did you know that out of 62 million tonnes of municipal solid waste generated per annum, only 43 million tonnes of waste is collected?

What’s more shocking is that only 11.9 MT of solid waste is treated & the rest 31 MT is dumped in landfills!

Probably that’s why you see so many landfills adding inches to them daily.

The one root cause of it is our excessive dependency on Centralized Waste Management. Let’s understand what it is.

Read Also: How GoClean makes your events eco-friendly?

Centralized Waste Management – The ‘outdated’ approach

Centralized Waste Management simply refers to sending all your waste to municipal trucks, and then they take care of the rest.

However, there are particular challenges to this waste management system!

Our years-old ‘Different wastes, one pot’ approach makes it hard for the waste sites to separate the waste at the site.

This washes down all the possibilities of recycling, and thus, ultimately left to rot & undergo anaerobic decomposition to emit Greenhouse gasses.
Here’s what Sushanth Gade, Senior Manager – Planning & Operations for Hyderabad Integrated Municipal Solid Waste (HIMSW) has to say about the gaps in our Centralized Waste Management — “In W2E technology, we increase the calorific value of the waste and then burn it to create energy. But, the waste that countries like India produce does not have the calorific value required to do this process because about 70% of organic waste is water.”

So what’s the solution for it? That’s where Decentralized Waste Management comes into the picture.

Decentralized Waste Management

Decentralized Waste Management refers to the management of waste at the source, and eliminating the dependency on the municipal collection of garbage.

It includes the segregation of waste at the source and minimizes it if possible.

Here’s how it solves the problem:

Segregation at the source ensures that the waste that is being sent to the landfills can be treated efficiently.

Reducing it at the source with methods like giving your products to someone or composting the organic waste collected can actually help with problems like global warming & climate change.

Talking about composting, the institutions (schools/colleges, companies, temples, societies, etc.) who are one of the biggest contributors to organic waste, often face problem with adopting composting as a waste management solution.

It is mainly because the traditional composting methods takes time, space & efforts.

But what if we tell you there is a way with which these institutions can move towards a decentralized waste management model without much efforts.

Read Also: Composting can help fight climate change: Get started in 5 easy steps

GoClean Organic Waste Composter – Perfect Decentralized Waste Management Method

GoClean Organic Waste Composters are a modern tech by Clean India Ventures that help or have helped many societies, companies, temples, etc., to adopt composting as the ultimate solution for their organic waste management.

Here are some key features of our GoClean Composters:

Converts organic waste into compost in 24 hours.
80% volume reduction of waste when compost is created.
Automatic, hence, minimizes the need of manual efforts.
Enclosed structure prevents bad odour from leaking out.
Sturdy stainless steel body ensures to keep it safe from any potential damage.

Here are some notable places where our unit is installed & doing wonders in waste management.

Statue of Unity, Gujrat

Baba Baidyanath Dham, Jharkhand

Badrinath Temple, Uttarakhand

GST Headquarters

Govt. Officers’ Colony, Sector-14A (Noida)

JPRA Colony, Ghaziabad (UP)

Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi

Hunar Haat, UP

Time Residency, Sec-63 (Gurgaon)

Is your organization dealing with loads of organic waste on daily basis?

Help them move towards sustainability along with cutting down on waste treatment costs with GoClean Organic Waste Composters.

To know more, contact us!

August 6, 2022 0 comment

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Composting can help fight climate change: Get started in 5 easy steps

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Climate Change Overview

You’ll be shocked to know that the last decade was the hottest in 125,000 years.
Yes, the past decade is likely to have been the hottest period in the last 125,000 years, says IPCC‘s sixth assessment report on the state of our climate. Though we’ve been oscillating between glacial (ice ages) and warmer interglacial periods like the one we currently live in for about 100,000 years, yet this is the warmest multi-century period we have had in this timespan.

Now the question is — Who’s responsible for it?

We’ve dug deep to find out the answer, and it was obvious as expected — Humans.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) kicked off its 2021 report with the following statement: “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.”

The continuous emissions of Greenhouse Gases as a result of our activities are making our surface temperature hotter.

What causes greenhouse emissions?

Increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere is at the core of this phenomenon of global warming and climate change.

A greenhouse gas is any gaseous compound in the atmosphere that traps & holds heat in the atmosphere by absorbing infrared radiation, thereby trapping and holding heat in the atmosphere. Take it as a blanket around the planet, trapping heat from the sun and increasing temperatures.

In short, greenhouse gases increase the heat in the atmosphere and thereby are responsible for the greenhouse effect, which ultimately leads to global warming.

Here are the most significant greenhouse gases, as per the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are: water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).

Among these, carbon dioxide (CO2), and methane (CH4) are the highest potent greenhouse gases respectively.

There are more shocking facts to come.

Global annual mean CO2 concentration has increased by 50% since the start of the Industrial Revolution, from 280 ppm during the 10,000 years up to the mid-18th century[2] to 421 ppm as of May 2022. -Source: Wikipedia

Also, The concentration of methane in the atmosphere has more than doubled since preindustrial times, reaching over 1,800 ppb in recent years (see the range of measurements for 2019 in Figure 2). -Source: EPA

One of the key contributors to this significant increase in GHGs emission is landfills.

Landfills are a significant source of methane, the most potent greenhouse gas & 2nd largest emitted GHG gas.

Infact “India is one of the world’s largest emitters of methane from landfills, currently

producing around 16 Mt CO2 eq per year, and predicted to increase to almost 20 Mt CO2 eq per

year by 2020” – says National Solid Waste Association of India (NSWAI)

Read Also: Importance of solid waste management to make the environment better

How does composting affect global climate change?

You’ll be shocked to hear that almost 69% of waste in landfills is organic in nature.

If managed wisely, this can be put to good use. And, one of the most effective methods to do it is COMPOSTING!

Yes, you heard it right!

It’s time to revive this centuries-old art of waste management as it is one such method of waste management that has least to no drawbacks.

From a responsibility-perspective, let’s divide Composting in 2 parts: Individual and Institutional.

Individual Composting

Though it is not that significant for other countries, when it comes down to a nation with 138 crore population, composting at an individual level becomes apparently significant.

Afterall, at an individual level, it is our responsibility to do as much as possible to keep our environment healthy.

If you have some backyard space or a big balcony, you can start with composting.

There are several ways of composting out there for individuals and you can choose one based on your space & ease. Some of the commonly used composting methods at individual level are: Pit composting, Compost pile, Compost bin, Tumbler composting, Vermicomposting, etc.

By composting your organic waste, you not only cut-down on your waste disposal cost but the resulting compost also makes your garden green.

Even if you don’t have a dedicated area for composting, you can still do your bit by segregating your waste as per the Municipal guidelines before sending it to landfills.

Read Also: How to Reduce the Impact of Wasted Food?

Institutional Level

Traditional Composting becomes a challenge for institutions (Schools/colleges, Offices, Restaurants/Hotels, Temples, Tourist places, etc.), especially medium & large ones, because of the following factors:

Space Required: Traditional Composting requires so much space. And if your waste production is significantly high on a daily basis, it gets hard to keep up with space requirements.

Time Taken: Tradition Composting methods take months to convert waste into compost.

Resources Required: Tradition Composting is all manual. Hence, institutions need to invest heavy resources in it.

GoClean Composter – Do composting the modern way!

Our GoClean Composter is helping organizations to reduce their carbon footprint, and also fulfill their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by composting their organic waste into compost.

It overcomes challenges of Traditional Composting, as it

Compact: It takes way lesser space than the traditional composting

Superfast: Compared to months-long waiting periods of traditional composting, it only takes 24 hours to turn organic waste into compost.

Automatic: No need to turn your compost pile again & again.

To know more about salient features of our GoClean composter, click here.

2-way Action Of Composting On Climate Change

Composting organic waste into compost is far more beneficial than just saving on waste disposal cost.

Here’s how Composting helps reversing the effects on Greenhouse emissions on our atmosphere & climate:

Reduces Methane Emission

Organic waste at landfills goes through anaerobic reaction and releases methane.

Composting is one sure-short way to cut-down methane emissions. By preventing organic waste ending up in landfills, and composting it instead, we can significantly lower methane levels from the atmosphere.

Reduces Carbon Levels

Composting helps lower down carbon levels.

How?

Compost helps replenishing soil with essential nutrients to support plants’ growth. Plants absorb carbon from the atmosphere to prepare their food, and release oxygen as a by-product.

This way it not only helps lower the carbon-levels from the atmosphere but also ensure a clean & healthy air to breathe.

July 25, 2022 0 comment

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How GoClean makes your events eco-friendly?

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What comes to mind when you hear about fests, events, exhibitions, etc.—fun, music, food, entertainment, right?

But did you ever think of the waste generated in these events?

Yes, we’re talking about the garbage behind the scenes of all the beautiful and shiny decorations.

So much food, kitchen, floral waste & other organic waste is generated in these events. And on top of it, they are hardly concerned about finding the best methods to treat the waste. Instead, they send the waste to landfills.

But think about it and tell us if it’s a sustainable solution!

Reports suggest that only 20% of the total collected waste in India is processed. The rest, 80%, goes straight up to landfills, where it causes Greenhouse emissions.

Now, the question here is — Can we do something about it?

And, the answer is — Yes, we sure can!

Nowadays, technology is so flexible & innovative that you can do practically anything. So why not leverage it to deal with this garbage problem.

Well, it’s not like the solutions are not there. However, lack of awareness is the central question here!

GoClean Composter — A Game-changer In Events

GoClean Composter is one of the finest organic waste reprocessing machines in India. Along with a wide range of capacity options (25 KG to 1000 KG), it has a super fast mechanism with which you can compost your organic waste into compost in 24 hours with 80% volume reduction.

It is suitable for societies, organizations of any size, schools, colleges, malls, NGOs, restaurants, hotels, and whatnot — Basically, every institution deals with tons of organic waste daily.

But, if you’re an event company or someone who organizes events, you can also benefit from it. How?

It removes the hassle of dealing with organic waste later.
It also cuts down the cost of treating the organic waste produced.
You can also add it to the highlights of your services, as people nowadays are moving to sustainable celebrations.

Hunar Haat — A Proof of GoClean Composter’s Excellence

We’ve been partnered with the Hunar Haat festival for almost 1 year now. During this journey, we’ve helped Hunar Haat go waste-free by installing our GoClean Composter units in their events across the country. These units were responsible for converting the organic waste generated in the event into compost.

GoClean composters, because of their efficiency & excellence, have made it to the news on several occasions.

Here are some of them:

Hunar Haat, Rampur

Hunar Haat, Mumbai

Hunar Haat Mathura

The primary purpose behind this strategic partnership with Hunar Haat was to educate the masses about the benefits of composting. In addition, by distributing the compost produced to the visitors, we made them aware of other ways to treat their organic waste instead of simply throwing it away.

July 5, 2022 0 comment

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How to properly manage your household waste?

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If you’ve read our previous blog — Is Household Waste Harmful To Environment? — you must have understood the consequences of sending your household organic waste to landfills without segregating it from the inorganic waste.

In this article, we’ll tell you the ideal way to segregate your waste & how you can do better things with your organic waste other than simply sending it to landfills.

But before moving any further, let’s just quickly understand what the Govt. rules & guidelines say about waste management.

Segregation of waste at source

Segregation of waste at source is a practice through which you separate and organize your waste before sending it to landfills so that it can treated to the best of efficiency.

Why segregate waste at source?

According to a report by MoHUA, 30% to 55% of Municipal solid waste is organic biodegradable matter?

Also, inert matter comprises 40% to 55%, and recyclables 5% to 15%.

If you take these numbers into account you’ll realize that there is a vast chunk of MSW that can be prevented going to landfills.

Hence, it makes it extremely important to segregate your waste at source.

How to segregate your waste at source?

In India, there are already rules in place on how to segregate the types of wastes at source. Below is the Solid Waste Management (SMW) rule for household waste in India.

Solid Waste Management Rules in India

To give you a background, Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in 2016 inaugurated Solid Waste Management Rules.

For household waste, there is a rule that clearly states that the segregation of waste at the source is mandatory. Under this rule, households must seperate waste into 3 categories —

Organic or Biodegradable waste
Dry waste, such as plastic, paper, metal and wood
Domestic Hazardous waste, such as diapers, napkins, mosquito repellents, and cleaning agents.

Composting — The Best Decentralized Waste Management Method

In this section we’d discuss:

What is Decentralized Waste Management?

Why Composting is the best decentralized waste management method?

What is Decentralized Waste Management?

When a community manage & process their waste in thor locality itself, and send little to no waste to their respective centralised large processing facility such as landfills, is known as Decentralised waste management.

Why Composting is the best decentralized waste management method?

Since much of the Municipal solid waste (30% to 55%) is organic biodegradable matter, it makes a strong case for Composting to be adopted as a staple decentralized waste management method.

Also, composting has a multi-directional advantage, such as:

The organic waste that otherwise would have ended up in landfills is converted into compost. This minimizes the Methane (CH4) emission which is the 2nd most holds a staggering 20% of total GHG emissions.
The resulted compost helps replenishing earth with essential nutrients to make it support the plant life in a better way. Plants, as you all know utilize CO2, the most emitted GHG, to make food. Hence, composting, indirectly, also lowering the CO2 levels from the atmosphere.

Also, you can generate a side income from it.

How can you turn household waste into compost? – The Conventional Way

Composting household waste requires a little knowledge & a little effort.

First thing first, composting involves the breaking down of organic matter (food waste) in the presence of air & water. Organic matter breaks down with the help of microorganisms and small insects present in nature.

In order to break down organic matter into compost, composting organisms require 4 conditions:

1. BROWN organic matter, i.e. carbon-rich organic matter such as dried leaves, sawdust, paper, etc.

2. GREEN organic matter, i.e. nitrogen-rich organic matter such as fruit & vegetable waste, coffee grounds, etc.

3. Oxygen that comes from air.

4. Water in the right amounts.

1. Take a wooden compost bin or a large earthen pot or a bucket with 4 to 5 holes around the container at different levels for aeration.

2. Spread a layer of soil at the bottom.

3. Now add an alternate layer of edible kitchen waste such as food scrapes & peels, wasted cooked food (small amounts), etc. and dry organic matter, such as dried leaves, sawdust, etc.

4. Cover your compost bin with a plastic sheet or a plank of wood to help retain moisture and heat.

5. Give your pile a quick turn every few days to facilitate aeration.

Sprinkle some water, if you think the pile is too dry, to make it moist. Please note the goal here is to moist the matter & not get it wet.

Taking our climatic condition into account, your compost should be ready within a month.

The key characteristics of a good compost is that it is dry, dark brown and crumbly and smells of earth.

How can you turn household waste into compost? – The Modern Way

If you live in a society that encourages & appreciates the Decentralized Waste Management, you can opt for our GoClean Organic Waste Reprocessors.

The salient features of GoClean Organic Waste Reprocessor are:

1. A variety of capacity options

GoClean composters come in a wide variety of capacity options, ranging from 25 KG to 1000 KG.

So doesn’t matter whether you’re a small society or a big one, we have a GoClean composter for you.

2. Superfast Composting

GoClean composters convert your organic waste into compost within 24 hours.

This way you never have to worry about everyday waste storage.

3. Enclosed Structure

With an enclosed structure, it makes sure that there is no smell coming out of your pile.

4. Automatic Machine

In the whole process of waste to compost, no manual process is involved except for loading and unloading.

GoClean Organic Waste Reprocessors has already been installed at some notable places where they are helping the places to move on the road of sustainability.

If your society also wants to adopt composting as a decentralized waste management method, click here.

April 23, 2022 0 comment

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Is Household Waste Harmful to the Environment?

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What is Household waste?

In simpler terms, it is the waste produced in an average residential household. It mainly comprises your

kitchen waste,
food waste,
stationery & paper waste,
dry municipal waste (sanitary pads, tampons, and other menstrual hygiene products), and hazardous waste (Fluorescent lamps/bulbs, etc.).

What is the cause of the increase in household waste?

With the rise of population, there’s also been a rise in the amount of waste produced. The automated lifestyle & industrialized human societies just add more to it.

Take the industrial revolution for example that has introduced new manufactured products & new manufacturing processes. This modern consumerism and the excess packaging has contributed significantly to the rise of household solid waste.

What happens to household waste in India?

The rapid urbanization has presented our country with a massive waste management challenge.

As per a report published in 2016, approximately 62 million tonnes of waste is generated in India per annum by over 377 million urban people living in 7,935 towns and cities.

The same report also states that only 43 million tonnes out of these 62 million tonnes of waste are collected. What’s more surprising is that only 11.9 million tonnes of the collected waste is treated and the rest 31 million tonnes are dumped in landfill sites.

With this rate, waste generation is estimated to reach 165 million tonnes per year by 2030.

Is sending waste to landfills a good idea?

Since almost half of our municipal waste generated in a year ends up in landfills, here’s a quick question — what do you think happens to the waste that ends up in the landfill?

Decomposition, right?

Wrong!

Organic waste in landfills undergoes anaerobic decomposition and that produces methane gas as byproducts.

Those who don’t know about Methane (CH4), it is the second-largest greenhouse gas and accounts for 20% of global GHG emissions. Methane is also more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide when it comes to trapping heat in the atmosphere.

All this and we haven’t even talked about the land & water pollution it causes yet.

Why is segregation of waste at the source the need of the hour?

Our decades-old habit — ‘All Waste, One Pot’ — of waste collection is now coming on our way to a pollution-free nation.

How?

The mixing of all waste into one makes it very hard to segregate it at the waste collection stage. This non-segregated waste is then sent to landfills, and we have already discussed what happens there.

The key to successful waste management lies in the segregation of waste at the source.

When we become responsible enough to separate wet and dry waste, recyclables, organic waste, hazardous waste, etc. at the source, it makes it way more easier to get treated in a proper manner.

And it’s not like these changes are very difficult to implement. Take Indore waste management model for example. This model helped Indore to become India’s Cleanest City for the fifth time in a row.

This model promoted a behavioural change among the masses towards waste segregation and also placed a system in place through which 100% waste collection is possible.

Combining these two factors, Indore is now what every other Indian city aspires to be.

But it’s not just Indore, many initiatives have been taken across the country to ensure smooth waste processing — transforming waste into a usable form.

In fact, this report by Statista shows what percentage of collected waste was processed from 2016 to 2020.

The numbers are in our favour. However, we’re still far from reaching the 100% mark and remember, there’s still a majority of waste (almost 50%) that has even been collected.

To wrap it up, population & modernization are 2 factors that are contributing to the increase in household waste. Also, throwing every waste into the same bin makes it difficult to segregate in the later stages. Further, when this unsegregated waste goes to landfills, it produces methane (CH4) that is harmful for the environment.

Lastly, waste segregation at the source is good, but we need to find better ways like composting the household organic waste, if we want a sustainable development.

When talking about composting, we’re sure you have a lot of questions in mind like What’s the process? What goes into the composting bin? etc.

Don’t worry! We’ll answer them all & much more in our next blog post. Till then, stay tuned!

April 16, 2022 0 comment

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How composting is good for the environment?

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Did you know that UNEP and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) have declared Composting as one of the best organic waste management practices that also reduces impact on the environment?

But what makes composting so worthy? It just nourishes soil, right?

Wrong!

While it is the only benefit that we’ve always been taught, there are also many underlying benefits of composting. Benefits that are a game-changer provided the major environmental crisis that the world is facing today.

In this article we’ll cover these benefits in detail.

You can also follow us on Instagram where we share many composting-related information like facts, methods, myth debunking, etc. everyday.

So let’s get started!

Benefits of composting for the environment

Water retention

Compost helps retain the moisture in the soil. Adding compost as a thin layer to bare soils creates a barrier that prevents the evaporation of soil moisture. This practice is known as top- or side-dressing.

This helps to reduce runoff, prevent/reduce erosion, and establish vegetation. By improving contaminated, compacted, and marginal soils, it can also help aid reforestation, restore wetlands, and habitat revitalization efforts.

Also, you’d be surprised to hear that soil’s water holding capacity quadruples by increasing the organic material in it only by 5%.

This reduces plants’ need for water. It is a very useful benefit considering there are many areas in India that experience summer drought. This reduces the need of water for irrigation by reducing periods of water stress.

Reduces Groundwater Pollution

Among several positive benefits of composting, this is perhaps one of the most important ones.

This is because groundwater accounts for almost half of all drinking water worldwide. Compost ensures its health by improving water infiltration, percolation, and reduces associated leaching potential.

Improves downstream water quality

As per EPA, by retaining pollutants such as heavy metals, nitrogen, phosphorus, oil and grease, fuels, herbicides, and pesticides, compost improves downstream water quality.

Greenhouse Emissions

Did you know that landfills are one of the greatest causes of Greenhouse gas emissions?

Yes! The organic waste that you send to landfills causes anaerobic decomposition there and that causes the emission of the second most abundant anthropogenic GHG after carbon dioxide (CO2), Methane!

Methane alone accounts for around 20 percent of global GHG emissions. Also, when it comes to trapping heat in the atmosphere, Methane is more than 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide.

By composting, you can not only prevent methane emissions in the environment but also helps in plant growth by increasing the fertility of the soil. This, in turn, helps reduce the CO2 level from the atmosphere.

Maintaining Biodiversity

Presence of various life forms in the soil is known as Soil biodiversity. It is one of the elements that determine Soil’s health.

The organic matter content in the soil is essential for plants’ growth as it improves water retention, provides nutrients for plants and soil organisms, and improves the soil structure.

Distributing the compost mix over the soil promotes soil biodiversity and increases organic matter in it. This results in healthy soil, which, in turn, helps support the flora over it.

Reduce the impact of wasted food

As per several reports, there’s a large chunk of the population in India that is malnourished.

Further, Food loss and waste is alone responsible for an estimated 8-10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. According to a report by FAO, food waste, if it were a country, would be the third-largest contributor for GHG emissions.

Also, don’t forget the wastage of land and water resources for the production of food that increasingly puts pressure on biodiversity.

Given the circumstances, the impact of wasted food can’t be reduced, but it can be reduced to a certain extent by composting.

How?

By Composting, you’re replenishing the soil with all the essential nutrients, and compost increases the water-holding capacity of the soil. This way, you can compensate for the loss of land & water resources because of the food waste.

Also, these additional nutrients promote plants’ growth which, in turn, supports more agriculture. Hence, you can produce more & good quality food.

Eat better (compost vs. fertilizers)

By improving soil structure and nutrient content, Compost reduces the requirement of chemical fertilizers for agriculture. This way you can ensure a chemical-free & cost-effective produce.

Are you an organization?

who is looking for sustainable ways to treat your organic waste?

If yes, our GoClean Organic Waste Reprocessor is the best for you. Specially designed to compost an organic waste load of 25 kg to 1000 kg in 24 hours, this could be your go-to solution for your everyday organic waste treatment.

And the best part is, once loaded, you don’t have to do anything, since it’s automatic.
For more details, visit here.

April 11, 2022 0 comment

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What are Organic Wastes?

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Organic waste management has become a huge problem in our country in recent years. While the govt. has launched many campaigns like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, etc., it all comes down to us as an individual to adopt methods like Decentralized Waste Management and Reduce, Recycle & Reuse to make all this work.

What are Organic Wastes?

Organic waste is the waste that is biodegradable and comes from any living source like plants, animals, and microorganisms. It can be broken into carbon dioxide, methane, or simple organic molecules.

Examples of organic waste include food waste, food-soiled paper, green waste, green waste, etc.

Its most common sources include agriculture, household activities, and industrial products.

Types of organic wastes

Let’s discuss some of the common types of organic wastes that can be easily found around us:

Municipal solid wastes- MSW (Municipal solid wastes), more commonly known as trash or garbage, include everyday items we use and then throw away. It includes product packaging, grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps, appliances, paint, newspapers, and batteries.

The most common sources of it are residential areas, schools, hospitals, and businesses.

Interesting facts

According to a 2016 estimate, India produces 277 million tonnes of municipal solid waste every year.

To put into perspective, it is 80% of the 334 million tonnes of waste generated across South Asia, and about 13% of the global waste generated every year.

Cattle wastes- Cattle wastes are wastes that are produced by animals. This is a significant contributor to the nation’s organic wastes considering we have a large population of livestock. In the year 2020, India alone had 303 million cows.

Interesting Facts

The Cattle Waste acts as a good resource of organic matter.

It is also an important soil fertilizer that provides a high concentration of micro & macronutrients for crop growth & soil fertility.

Food wastes- To put it simply, Food waste is food that is not eaten. However, it doesn’t only involve the end-user but the complete Food System. In more simple words, food waste or food loss occurs throughout the food system, during production, processing, distribution, retail, and consumption.

Some of the examples of food wastes include peelings, cores, leaves, fruits, twigs, outer skins, and sludges.

Interesting Facts

Food wastes account for about 30% or one-3rd of total organic waste in nature via natural and artificial means.

Even though most of the organic wastes add up nutrients and minerals in the soil for its fertility and plant growth, inappropriate disposal practices might cause severe damage to the environment.

Hence, the concept of organic waste management and recycling has been introduced and implemented.

What is organic waste management?

Organic waste management is a process where organic wastes are recycled or converted into other useful matter by different recycling methods.

Why is there a need for Organic waste management?

Organic waste accounts for most of the waste created in nature. The need for organic waste management or recycling has increased over the years as waste management became an emerging issue in many metropolitan cities.

This is because of the excess moisture content present in the Urban organic waste that increases its volume and lowers its incinerator temperatures, causing the overload of waste.

To deal with such issues, various treatment methods and practices have been formulated and introduced throughout the world.

The primary objective of organic waste management/recycling is to maintain a sustainable cycle of organic waste disposal by various methods & techniques. Let’s check out the most common of them:

Methods of organic waste recycling

Animal feed- This method of recycling organic waste includes feeding agricultural and food waste to cattle and other animals as food.

Advantages

It is one of the most common, simple, and efficient ways of recycling organic waste.

This method has many advantages like reduced pressure on landfills, reduced methane production from fruits and vegetables, and the lack of need to convert organic waste into some other forms.

Farmers also benefit from it as they don’t have to buy the food for their cattle. This eventually helps the economy.

Shortcomings

Some organic wastes are not good for the animals and lead to major health issues in them. Therefore, many countries like the US have made regulations on the type & the condition of the food given to the animals.

Composting- Perhaps the most popular method, it utilizes microorganisms that are naturally present in organic matter and soil to decompose organic materials. This results in recycling nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and other soil nutrients into humus-rich components.

It’s an Aerobic process that takes place under controlled conditions of air, moisture, temperature, etc.

Advantages

With compost bins, you can compost simple kitchen/food waste and garden cuttings.

You get a by-product i.e. Compost that you can further use to condition your soil.

Shortcomings

It’s a very long process that includes both the composting time followed by the stabilization period.

Though almost all the organic waste can be composted, some organic wastes like wood chips, paper, etc. take longer than food and agricultural wastes.

Anaerobic digestion- Anaerobic digestion has been proposed due to the negative impacts of other widely used waste management methods such as landfilling, incineration, etc.

It’s a cost-effective technology for renewable energy production and treatment of high moisture and energy-rich material.

During this process, different types of biomass and other organic wastes get converted into biogas and nutrient-rich residue with the help of anaerobic microorganisms.

Advantages

Compared to other methods, this method can recycle a much wider range of substrates, even those with high moisture content and impurities. For example wastewater, sewage sludge, and animal manure.

Shortcomings

Generally carried out at a commercial scale on farms and at wastewater treatment works (WwTWs), it requires a high level of investment in infrastructures such as large tanks and other process vessels.

If run inefficiently, it can cause odor nuisance.

Rendering- Generally carried out on dead animals, it’s a process of converting waste animal tissues into stable and usable materials. For example, feed protein.

It involves exposing the fatty tissues, bones, and animal carcass to a high temperature of about 130°C and then pressurized to destroy pathogens.

Though it’s normally performed on animal tissues, some non-animal products can also be rendered down with this process.

Advantages

The advantages include the economy of energy, better protein yield, faster processing, etc.

Shortcomings

It cannot completely degrade waste products like blood.

The raw materials used in the rendering process are susceptible to spoilage.

So far the methods we’ve discussed, composting is the one that is accessible to all and has no serious shortcoming other than the duration.

If you’re interested in composting then our GoClean range of composters is a must-try. Not only do they come in a spectrum of capacities from 25 KG to 1 Tonne, but you also get 70-80% mature compost within a day.

With that being said, we all should take the measures that are within our capacities to ensure a Cleaner & Greener tomorrow for the future generation.

With that being said, we all should take the measures that are within our capacities to ensure a Cleaner & Greener tomorrow for the future generation. Individuals need to step up and help the govt. with whatever lies in their capacities like composting, etc. for an effective Organic Waste Management.

June 10, 2021 0 comment

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What is an Organic Waste Composter?

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To understand this, we first need to understand Composting. In simpler terms, it is a method to convert solid organic waste into compost which in turn helps increase the fertility of the soil. In a more specific manner, it is a way to treat solid waste where microorganisms break down the organic material(waste) which helps the natural process of decay.

Now an Organic Waste Composter is a device that helps decompose the organic waste into nutrient-rich humus or compost. In other words, it is not a substitute for natural decomposition, it just accelerates the process by controlling the natural conditions such as heat, humidity, and moisture. Most of the Organic Waste Composter in the market.

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It is typically a big box-like machine and consists of:

In-built shredder: It is used for shredding the waste which helps speed up the decomposition process.

Mixing blade: It is for mixing up the waste for the even distribution.

Humidity sensor & heater: The microorganisms and enzymes decompose the organic compost and turn it into the compost, requiring the ideal conditions so they can multiply and operate at full efficiency.

Air ventilation system: Aerobic organisms need to breathe air to survive. In high-temperature aerobic composting, Aeration is necessary for rapid odor-free decomposition. It also helps reduce high initial moisture content in composting materials.

Moisture control system: When the pile is soggy, the gaps between the organic pieces fill with water and the pile becomes too dense to support aerobic bacteria and other organisms.

You also need sawdust which acts as a moisture regulator material for composting raw materials, or as a sludge with high moisture content, livestock waste, and waste. Also, the use of enzymes helps break down the wastes at an accelerated rate.

Moreover, compost is a better alternative to traditional manure as it is first, readily available, unlike manure which takes its own time to form. Secondly, it stabilizes the pH of the land which normally the manure can’t do efficiently. Additionally, manure can have weed seeds which is often a trouble for the farmers.

What are the types of organic waste?

Organic waste is the biodegradable waste that comes from plants & animals. Some examples of organic waste include green waste, food waste, food-soiled paper, non-hazardous wood waste, green waste, and landscape, and pruning waste.

We can classify Organic Waste into 4 types:

Industrial
Domestic
Commercial
Agricultural

Let’s discuss a little about each one of them.

Industrial waste: When talking about industrial waste, people often think that it is only the hazardous one but many cottage and herbal units have tons of organic wastes every month.

Domestic waste: It is the common waste in our households like fruit peel-offs, food scraps, etc. It could also be non-putrescible waste like paper, cardboard, wood, etc.

Commercial waste: This is the common waste produced from schools, restaurants, hotels, etc. This type of waste is generally organic in nature.

Agricultural waste: This is the biggest contributor to Organic Waste. Leaves, rotten fruits, and vegetables, etc. can be converted into compost which ultimately helps them back by making their lands more fertile.

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How can we reduce Organic Waste?

Organic waste is one of the biggest causes of pollution. Dumping this waste into landfills not only causes soil & land pollution but also leads to many infectious diseases. Also, due to the lack of oxygen, organic waste undergoes the process of anaerobic decomposition when it’s buried in a landfill. This leads to the generation of methane, which is then released into our atmosphere and harms it. The studies show that the methane gas generated from food waste is 20-25 times stronger than CO2.

Govt. has also set up many rules and regulations in this direction recently. According to Swach Bharat Abhiyan’s initiative, if your business comes under a bulk waste generator i.e. producing organic waste of more than 15 kg per day then you need to have an organic waste machine for its treatment.

However, we should not wait for the govt. to come into the picture. Instead, it should be our shared responsibility to help reduce the stress on our land and soil.

An Organic Waste Composter can be seen as an investment from the perspective of the cottage and organic industries. Not only it helps saving loads of money goes into dumping and treatment of the waste, but can also be an alternative source of income. Societies or RWA’s can also install an Organic Waste Composter to help reduce the waste and make their localities clean and green. Further, schools & colleges, and hotels & restaurants can install an Organic Waste Composter and contribute their bit to the environment and keep their premises clean. For the Agricultural sector, it is a boon which can directly profit them by making their land rich in nutrients.

At last, keeping our surroundings Clean & Green is our shared responsibility, so why don’t we do it innovatively and profitably?

March 10, 2021 0 comment

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Organic Waste Converter and how its done

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What is Composting:

Composting is a process that deals in organic solid waste, which turns all kinds of wastage such as food items, kitchen waste, temple waste, and much more. Any waste material which is converted into the usable bi-product is known as compost.

Clean India Ventures Private limited Green Waste Reprocessor machine is used to convert solid waste into usable compounds which make it one of the organic waste converter machines in India. The compost product can be then used by farmers and enable them to grow good quality seeds by using natural compost and no need of using artificial fertilizers, and also it can be used to make havan samagri.

Composting is a rich process as the process finally results in a nutrient-rich organic fertilizer. This machine is so compatible and maintains all the requirements that are needed to bring this auspicious result i.e. the making of compost in this process.

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Composting by Organic Waste Converter Machine:

A waste converter is a machine used for the treatment and recycling of solid and liquid refuse material. The process of converting solid waste into compost is very simple, and it saves the environment by turning waste into a solid or called a useful bi-product.

This machine performs its mechanism in the presence of air. The whole mechanism overcomes all the barriers which may affect the process in a bad way. The input it takes is biodegradable waste and the output it produces is an excellent substance. The structure of this machine is built in a way that it has different doors or openings for taking the input and for giving the output.

Composting is the solution to our waste management problems and it is an urgent need of the hour that needs to be taken care of immediately. The use of Organic Waste Converter to automate and ease the process of composting is a step in the right direction. The sooner we adopt it, the better we can do for the environment.

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One must keep in mind that the ratio between the carbon and between the nitrogen must be carefully handled when waste is being composted. If there is a lot of carbon, the composting will take longer and if there is too much nitrogen, the process will emit a bad odor. Other important factors include the moisture content and the oxygen content in the pile. All of these factors must be borne in mind when composting. Often, composting manually can be a tricky process. One may, therefore, consider the use of an Organic waste composter.

Before composting, the waste can be ground up, to reduce the volume of the waste so that it can decompose faster, and can easily be transported. We at Clean India Ventures manufactured a Green Waste Reprocessor machine to save the environment.

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