A green environment requires effort from all of us to reduce waste, and also segregate them to help improve garbage-handling. Most Asian countries have very poor waste-handling facilities. We all should pitch in - after all, it will be our kids who will be living in and inheriting this earth.
I have been bringing my own shopping bags long before it was fashionable. Segregating waste takes little effort, anyone can do it. Composting is something we also try to do at home.
Last week, I got my kids to help out in composting. It was my maid's day-off, so we cooked and cleaned-up together. Here are a few of the stuff we did to make our part of the world a little greener.
My daughter H helped cook the rice; on a small pail, she collected the rice washing. On this, we also washed the eggshells I used for the breakfast omelette. It boosted up the nutritional value that the plants got when we used this to water them.
Using a shovel, we dug a shallow pit on the backyard. Into it went peelings from the oranges and mangoes from breakfast, and the tomatoes and bottle gourd from lunch. In two weeks, those will turn to soil.
See the papaya plant? It just started growing. And the plant at the bottom (with smooth leaves) is a jackfruit. The other plants are peace lilies we've planted a few months back, and they're thriving.
We have been composting since we moved to this house, the soil around has become quite fertile. We've seen tomato plants, bell pepper plants just sprung out because the seeds love our soil. It's hard to explain the little joy I feel seeing plants thriving around the house, seeing something come to life.
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