Disposal of Kitchen Waste from High Rise Apartment
Abstract
The high rise building has numbers of floor and rooms having variety of users or tenants for residential purposes. The huge quantities of heterogenous mixtures of domestic food waste are generated from every floor of the high rise residential buildings. Disposal of wet and biodegradable domestic kitchen waste from high rise buildings are more expensive in regards of collection and vertical transportation. This work is intended to address the technique to dispose of the wet organic food waste from the high rise buildings or multistory building at generation point with the advantage of gravity and vermicomposting technique. This innovative effort for collection and disposal of wet organic solid waste from high rise apartment is more economical and hygienic in comparison with present system of disposal.
- Publication:
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Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A
- Pub Date:
- September 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s40030-017-0213-3
- Bibcode:
- 2017JIEIA..98..237O
- Keywords:
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- Multistory apartment;
- Vermicomposting;
- Wet organic solid waste;
- Heterogenous mixtures