Organic Waste Converters in Shil Phata, Kalyan-Dombivli.

A large township near Shil Phata can produce several tonnes of wet waste a day once fully occupied, which is too much to leave for municipal collection in an area where collection itself is uneven. We plan central processing with room to grow, collection routes within the layout, and an outlet for the finished compost: landscaping inside the township, or supply to nurseries and farms. Staffing and running costs are set out clearly, so the housing societies know what they will inherit.

Shil Phata is a road junction before it is a place: the point where the Kalyan-Shil road crosses traffic bound for Mumbra, Navi Mumbai and Panvel. Hills rise around it, cut in places by quarries, and the flatter ground below has filled with warehouses, roadside businesses, older villages and, increasingly, large residential townships beside the Kalyan-Shil road. The area straddles municipal boundaries, with Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli and village jurisdictions meeting close by. Metro and road-widening works have added to a corridor that already carries heavy freight and commuter traffic through much of the day.