Phevima Eco Club (PEC), a youth based initiative organised a seminar on “best practices on solid waste management” focused on zero waste at Kacharigaon Phevima village on January 26.
A press release by PEC stated that, the interactive seminar and demonstration were conducted by “Pro Rural”, a Dimapur based NGO, registered in 2009, which has collaborated with Dimapur Municipal Council on waste management practices in 38 colonies in Dimapur. Seminar was co-facilitated by Lieutenant Col Joy Choudhury, of the Zila Sainik Board.
Project coordinator of Pro Rural, Neili Konyak demonstrated the process of home composting with the G2G composter (garbage to gold) powder for turning household waste into compost manure. The benefits of the liquid by-product from the process, for kitchen and flower gardening, as well as cleaning septic tanks, pipes and drains, were illustrated. Volunteers from PEC will be trained for commercial production of G2G composter powder, under the aegis of Pro Rural.
Consultant with DMC on waste management and legacy waste, Adrian Mahung, gave inputs on the ways and possibilities of collaboration, for source segregation, dealing with non bio-degradable waste disposal, and the negative effects of waste burning, especially multi-layered plastics (MLPs) being carcinogenic. Village Council chairman, Vitho Zao gave some preliminary resolutions, including “no waste burning” and ways forward to implement the methods taught.
Earlier, welcome note was given by Vitho Zao, invocation by KPWO president, Kezhale and founder of Pro Rural, Paul Lokho gave powerpoint presentation on waste segregation and its methods.
A commitment from volunteer participants to a pilot initiative, in collaboration with Pro Rural, for home composting was the first concrete step from the Seminar. PEC was started on September 2020 by Vibozo Teso for a model clean and green village.
