Awesome New Ideas For A Better Tomorrow (1) - Daily Dump
Life-saving gadgets, safer ways to travel, solutions for sanitation and cost-effective answers to everyday problems… India has a host of good ideas just waiting to explode. See what’s bubbling under
EVEN
AS you’re reading this, winds of change are blowing across India.
From places as busy as Mumbai, as faraway as Erode and as troubled
as Kashmir, great new ideas are sprouting, promising a better
tomorrow, making us proud. Our nation of jugaad is taking a giant
leap forward – inventing, adapting and creating bold new ways to
make your everyday life easier.
1. Tools That Compost Your Trash At Home
IDEA:
Daily Dump
BRAINCHILD OF: Poonam Bir Kasturi
Compost
is not sexy. Rich socialites don’t throw charity dinners to Save
The Earthworms and waste management is not the stuff of Miss World
speeches. That’s why Poonam Bir Kasturi is important.
The
NID graduate gave up a career in marketing and designing industrial
products to start Daily Dump in 2006. The enterprise makes simple
products that can turn your garbage into compost, reducing landfills,
easing the load on municipal agencies and helping your backyard or
balcony get a lot greener in the process.
It’s
not rocket science. Use their three-tier Kambha in a corner of your
verandah. Dump kitchen waste (potato peels, leftovers, apple cores)
plus their compost mixer in the top vessel until full. Swap the first
and second vessel and dump anew as the matter in the first vessel
decomposes. After a while (14 days for a household-sized unit) the
stuff in your first vessel will have shrunk by half and be ready for
the bottom pot, where it can start turning into manure for your
garden. No stink, no flies, no additional costs, no sweat. “It’s
very easy to use, convenient and everyone in the family, including
your kids can use it,” says Kasturi proudly.
Daily
Dump does in your home what communities and governments across the
world are struggling to do with the large volumes of waste they are,
well, “dumped” with. Kasturi and her team have created their
entire range of products from scratch and also have models for groups
and neighbourhoods.
STATUS:
Daily
Dump products are already available on dailydump.org, which has
comprehensive instructions and tips for composting. Products are
priced starting Rs. 700. The latest invention
Is
called the Aaga, a huge pot, meant for hotels, schools and offices.
Available online from January 2015.
HTBR141130
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