Garden Waste & Forest Fire

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Sanjeev Goyal

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Apr 17, 2024, 10:30:48 AMApr 17

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PMOPG/E/2024/0073513

17/04/2024

Grievance Controlling Forest Fires & Preservation of Natural Resources: The dropped dry leaves from trees are natural fertilizers for earth. In city gardens, at present, all these are swept away to dustbins and transported to dumping yards. There would be very few gardens having facilities to convert this to compost. At most places, this waste finds place in garbage bin burdening the maintenance system and the land fill both. So, we are actually breaking this natural recycling process and depriving trees from free natural gift. I have never seen any municipality supplying such compost to gardens. In forest areas the heap of dry leaves is the most immediate cause to ignite fire during fall season. The point is how we can avoid this mass wastage of natural resources as well avoid extremely hazardous forest fire.

Probable solution: In order to mitigate the damage we need a small portable device that can grind and crush dry leaves into powder. Such converted material would easily get mixed with ground without any necessity of being transported anywhere and can be easily left as it is in the gardens/forests to decay in natural course and become manure. In this way we can provide great relief to landfill site, save the efforts in collecting & transporting this and most important avoid huge wastage of this nutritional substance.

Further this can prove to be an effective tool to control forest fire. Every year thousands of hectares are gutted and substantial damage is cause because of fire caused by such dry leaves. The crushing machine can greatly reduce incidents of such fires. CSIR may develop such an instrument. This small tool can bring reforms in the way we handle green waste.