PRAYAGRAJ: The city based temple Creates tons of flower waste, and the problem gets worse during this holy month Shravan and Navratri festival. However, the management of the city’s famous Mankameshwar temple has devised a plan to address this. wastage of flowers problem by installing a In-house Composting Unit For disposal of waste.
Chief priest of Mankameshwar temple, Brahmachari Sridharananda told TOI, “We have devised a new plan to deal with the temple flowers and puja waste and convert it into compost with the help of natural materials.”
He said, “Initially, an agricultural unit based in Kanpur was handling the disposal of flower waste, leaves and garlands, but the staff of the unit stopped working during the corona pandemic and after which, the temple staff started converting. prepared the plan. Compost from flowers and pooja waste”
With the month of Shravan approaching and offering flowers, garlands and leaves of different species of plants to Lord Shiva during the holy month, the strength of the devotees will increase manifold, many tons of flower waste will be created, we will be taking flower waste, leaves . And garland our cowshed and try to convert it into natural manure,” said Sridharanand. “We will offer free natural fertilizers to the devotees, including farmers, to grow fruits and flowers,” he said.
The process is simple. Quantities of leaves, flowers and garlands from the temple waste are collected in bins. The waste either goes to the landfill or to large drums which have arrangements for soaking water and adding natural substances, converting the waste into organic after a certain period and producing clean manure,” explained the chief priest of the Mankameshwar temple. “Many people come to the temple premises in search of natural fertilizers to grow saplings,” he said.
other than this, management committee of elder Hanuman temple is turning the waste of flowers into natural fertilizer
Swami Anand Giri Lord Hanuman Mandir said, “We are using the simplest form of composting in our fields and getting natural fertilizers to grow plants and vegetables”.
Experts claimed that flower waste, leaves and garlands were kept in dustbins in fields and cowsheds. After a few months, the innermost layer decays and turns into a black powder. It can be used as manure and compost, he explained. “It’s a completely zero-maintenance process and everything is on nature here,” he said.
The fact is, most of the major temples in the city have now started converting flowers and kitchen waste generated in their premises into compost to tackle the issue of wastage of flowers. The temple authorities also claimed that they have ideas about composters, which were being installed in several temples in the southern states, but we have chosen the natural process to decompose the flower waste.
Chief Priest of Maa Kalyani Devi Temple, Shyam Pathak “The quantity of flower waste increases manifold during the festive season and we make suitable arrangements for its natural disposal,” says.
Chief priest of Mankameshwar temple, Brahmachari Sridharananda told TOI, “We have devised a new plan to deal with the temple flowers and puja waste and convert it into compost with the help of natural materials.”
He said, “Initially, an agricultural unit based in Kanpur was handling the disposal of flower waste, leaves and garlands, but the staff of the unit stopped working during the corona pandemic and after which, the temple staff started converting. prepared the plan. Compost from flowers and pooja waste”
With the month of Shravan approaching and offering flowers, garlands and leaves of different species of plants to Lord Shiva during the holy month, the strength of the devotees will increase manifold, many tons of flower waste will be created, we will be taking flower waste, leaves . And garland our cowshed and try to convert it into natural manure,” said Sridharanand. “We will offer free natural fertilizers to the devotees, including farmers, to grow fruits and flowers,” he said.
The process is simple. Quantities of leaves, flowers and garlands from the temple waste are collected in bins. The waste either goes to the landfill or to large drums which have arrangements for soaking water and adding natural substances, converting the waste into organic after a certain period and producing clean manure,” explained the chief priest of the Mankameshwar temple. “Many people come to the temple premises in search of natural fertilizers to grow saplings,” he said.
other than this, management committee of elder Hanuman temple is turning the waste of flowers into natural fertilizer
Swami Anand Giri Lord Hanuman Mandir said, “We are using the simplest form of composting in our fields and getting natural fertilizers to grow plants and vegetables”.
Experts claimed that flower waste, leaves and garlands were kept in dustbins in fields and cowsheds. After a few months, the innermost layer decays and turns into a black powder. It can be used as manure and compost, he explained. “It’s a completely zero-maintenance process and everything is on nature here,” he said.
The fact is, most of the major temples in the city have now started converting flowers and kitchen waste generated in their premises into compost to tackle the issue of wastage of flowers. The temple authorities also claimed that they have ideas about composters, which were being installed in several temples in the southern states, but we have chosen the natural process to decompose the flower waste.
Chief Priest of Maa Kalyani Devi Temple, Shyam Pathak “The quantity of flower waste increases manifold during the festive season and we make suitable arrangements for its natural disposal,” says.
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