Striding through a field of overgrown grass where thick blue pipes crisscross into concrete silos, Choi Sung-ho scrunched his nose in the steamy July heat, drawing in a familiar odor. Since South Korea banned land-filling food waste in 2005, followed by another ban on dumping its liquid byproduct into the ocean in 2013, the country has operated a comprehensive composting …
The quantum of segregated organic waste that the Coimbatore Corporation handed over to the composting plant at Vellalore was only 22 % of the nearly 14,000 tonnes of the total municipal solid waste the civic body has sent to the composting plant, as per the figures available till February this year, according to the private agency operating the plant. In …
Mumbai: A housing society of 412 apartments in Andheri East has achieved zero-garbage status thanks to a composting system designed by a BMC official. Green Field Rocks End CHS in JVLR, winner of the Swacch Survekshan 2022 award, does not send its wet garbage to the dumping ground but deals with all of it in situ—this despite the fact that …
The Church of England could consider “human composting” at Christian funerals to help meet its net zero target. Written question to Synod The bishops’ announcement comes after the General Synod, the Church of England’s legislative body, voted in February 2020 in favour of setting a target to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. He asked: “Bearing in mind the Church of …