Garbage dumps in Delhi are exploding by the day. While walking to experience the HERITAGE OF DELHI, we encounter in our hidden gems, landfills and garbage dumps; and the ugly Grafitti defacing our precious heritage – a national shame ! 

The solution is simple –

• Segregate your garbage at source – Organic kitchen waste needs to be binned separate from dry, recyclable garbage.
• Eliminate the garbage dump – (a middleman or broker) by sending the garbage straight to the composting pit in the DDA parks in your colony. Don’t let it rot in the garbage dump.
• At the de-composting pit site – the kitchen waste is used to make compost. The dry waste can lie here for the Kabariwala. There are no cows / dogs eating rotten food which is the usual site at any garbage dump.

Even better — kill your own garbage at home. Make your own compost in a drum. Sell the balance to the Kabariwala.

You only need:

• Cooperation from the households
• Making sure the garbage man is informed of his new route to the de-composting pit.
• Facilitation by RWAs & DDA. 
  And that is what makes a ZERO GARBAGE COLONY

Some initiatives of ‘Delhi Metro Walks’ for 2010:

• Getting to know the heritage sites in your neighborhood – Starting Dec’09 we undertook a Heritage walk to know about the tombs & monuments in Green Park, Hausa a Khans & Mayfair Gardens (my own locality), where we address the above concerns to find solutions. In subsequent months, we shall organize similar walks in other localities
• Volunteer for Historical Research with Delhi Metro Walks for ASI signages.