Southern Railway’s first Organic Waste Composting Plant

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Successful story of waste recycling at Chengalpattu Railway Station

The most reliable and durable organic waste composting machine in India

There are myths about organic waste composting that some claim they can convert the waste into compost within 24 hrs time but we appreciate Southern Railway for not believing in the impossible one. That’s how the Southern Railway’s first organic waste composting plant comprising of the most efficient and reliable in vessel drum type non heating natural composter was initiated in 2019.

The tender was awarded to the most prestigious oranisation in the field of green environment mission, M/s.Hugros Incorporation. Hugros is into manufacturing and supply of environmental solutions like non heating type natural organic waste composter machine, plastic recycling machines, incinerators, vacuum litter pickers, spillage and material recovery using vacuum technology etc. The project which included the complete building, waste segregation facilities and the supply of 250Kg daily waste input capacity waste composter was successfully completed by Hugros in 2019.

The size of the building was 15m in length and 6.5m in width for facilitating the segregation of input waste and for the storage of output compost. The organic waste composting machine supplied by Hugros is an in vessel drum type non heating composting machine which ensures complete natural decomposition of the waste with the help of bacteria.

The facility was officially inaugurated on 8th October 2019 by the then general manager – Southern Railway, Mr.John Thomas along with other officials.

That was the beginning of a green initiative for Chengalpattu Railway Station which enabled them to segregate the total waste into biodegradable and non-biodegradable batches. The biodegradable waste which consists of food waste, kitchen waste, green grass, green leaves etc is being loaded in the hugros organic waste composter along with dry leaves, papers etc. The input waste capacity of the hugros composter is 250Kg per day. The loading process is contnued for 21 days and the final output is collected. Hugros organic waste composter follows a 21 days cycle for complete decomposition of the organic waste which ensures a good quality and matured output. The compost output received was of very good quality.

Chengalpattu Railway Station has successfully recycled several tons of biodegradable waste into useful compost in the past few years without letting them go wasted in the landfill causing harm to the environment.

This initiative further encouraged the Southern railway for implementing more projects to manage the solid waste generated.

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