The Daily Dump Project

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Mrs. Kanyika Kini,
Communication designer, Daily Dump 

Better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right.

This is how communication designer Kanyika Kini crystallizes the philosophy behind the Daily Dump – project. What started of as educating people in how to diminish the amount of 2000 tons of garbage produced in Bangalore is slowly developing into a phenomenon in India.

70% of the waste produced daily is organic waste which prompted to the idea of a composting system, which would be tempting to own by Indian people. The project involved also fighting against prejudice, such as waste management being the government’s job and not concerning the individual.

The result is a three-storey modular, space effective product made of Indian terracotta, which supports the pottery communities and taps into traditional south Indian social and cultural paradigms. The project raised a lot of interest and encouragement to widen the market perspective as the intent of the Daily Dump - project is also to speak to urban planners.

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[Prof M P Ranjan]

The Daily Dump is an amazing project for what it represents as an opportunity to make all cities and homes of the world clean by offering a way to process organic wastes directly at home. The very idea is audacious and the implementation is elegent, since it does away with the ubiquitous garbage truck and the city corporations that have a huge cleaning team in order to make the city clean enough for living. In India these systems are all but failing and the call is for more investments and more rules!! but here is an elegant way to provide employment to small local craftsmen while giving the home makers a sense of dignity in processing their own organic waste.

I have written about this briefly on my blog called "Design for India" and I quote here from the post titled "Global Warming and Design Concerns in India"

I quote:
There is the wonderfully insightful and significant initiative from Poonam Bir Kasturi in Bangalore and it is now expanding to Chennai through her "Daily Dump" domestic organic waste management system which can be seen at this link here.

You too can act now and get the – Daily Dump – installed in your own home as a demonstration and test proving site.

Nominated for the Index Award in 2007 it is already a wonderful achievement but we will await the results and progress of its adoption with great interest in the days ahead.
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M P Ranjan
NID, Ahmedabad
16 June 2008