Decentralized composting at Madhuban Hotel, Rajpur road

Budget : NA

Innovation Type (Process/ Product): Process

About the Project:

Madhuban Hotel in Dehradun is one of the best luxury hotels in the city with an area of 4.4 hectares. This hotel is having 107 guest rooms, four conference rooms and board rooms amongst large stretches of lush green vegetation that includes gardens and lawn areas. The hotel has adopted decentralized composting from food waste within its premises. For this, they use the Quick Compost Machine from Alfa Therm Ltd. It is capable of converting food waste into compost in just 24 hours. The machine has a capacity to process 200 kg of wet waste per day and there is no necessity for a separate curing system in this composting method. The area occupied by the facility is around 24 sq. m. The food waste is mixed with dry organic waste like garden waste in the ratio of 70:30 (70% food waste and 30% dry garden waste) and certain decomposing agents. Finally, the mix is put into the composter. The composter converts the matter into compost in 24 hours. The most important aspect of this composter is that it is automatic and runs on 24x7 mode. The compost generated in this process is used in their gardens of the hotel itself. This has helped the hotel authorities in completely cutting down the expenses that were earlier made on the purchase of fertilizers. The hotel generates 125 to 130 kg of food waste on a daily basis that amounts to 18 to 20 kg of compost, which is more than sufficient to meet the compost requirement in the gardens and lawns present in the hotel premises. The capital expenditure of the facility is Rs. 9, 75,000. Only one person has been employed from amongst the existing employees of the hotel for the supervision of the machine. The operational expenses include the electricity charges incurred for the running of the facility. Hence there are no operational expenditures incurred in this project. The compost thus produced is being used for horticultural purposes of the hotel itself.

Sector : Solid Waste Management

Pilot City : Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Ownership : Dehradun Municipal Corporation

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