Organic Waste Converters in Vashi, Navi Mumbai.

Every night the APMC yards receive fruit, vegetables and flowers, and every morning they discard what did not sell, which makes the markets one of Navi Mumbai's heaviest sources of wet waste. Hotels, hospitals and the node's larger housing societies add their own. Much of it can be composted or digested near the market gates instead of travelling to landfill. We weigh the waste stream by stream, pick converters or biogas units to match, and arrange sorting so the machines are fed food and green waste, not plastic.

Vashi was the first CIDCO node to be settled, at the Navi Mumbai end of the road bridge over Thane Creek, and it is still the city's busiest centre. Its sectors hold low-rise CIDCO housing put up in the seventies and eighties, much of it now due for rebuilding, alongside newer towers, malls, hospitals and the offices clustered around the railway station. The APMC wholesale markets, which moved here from south Mumbai in stages, trade produce, grain, spices and flowers for the whole region every night. Mangroves line the creek on its western side. Half a century on, Vashi is being rebuilt from within.