Greening the waste stream

Farooq Ganai's approach to recycling food waste is benefitting him and the community too. Fayaz Wani highlights Ganai's eco-friendly entrepreneurship

- Fayaz Wani

initiative was to attract people and inform them as to how worthy the waste is," Farooq told The Morning Standard. Now, with this latest effort, he has been stressing behavioural changes — segregating waste at source, i.e., dividing waste into multiple categories but mainly organic (food waste) and recyclable (plastic, paper etc.).

"From the last year, I have been working on it. People usually throw the domestic waste in rivers and nallahs, and it leads to choking of drains and unhealthy living conditions during the rainy season," Farooq said.

"I segregate whatever waste is generated in my home. The onion, potato, banana and orange peels, and egg shells; whatever has to be discarded in the form of domestic waste, I segregate it from non-organic waste," he said.