Climate Change
What is Climate Change?
Climate change refers to significant, long-term changes in the global climate. Extreme temperature, Repeated cyclones ,Strong winds, Unprecedented heavy rain causing severe floods, Severe drought, Erratic weather patterns, rising sea levels and melting glaciers due to climate change, are reshaping societies across the globe.
What Causes Climate Change ?
- Green House Phenomenon
- Green House Gases
- Sources of Green House Gases
- CO2 - Fossil Fuel burning
- Methane – Waste Management & Agriculture
- N2O – Excessive Nitrogen Fertilizer
- H2O – Evaporation Increases
Challenges of improper Waste Management
- Anaerobic pile of organic waste in dump yard generates Methane and other Green House gases enhancing global warming and climate change
Huge Amount of carbon which is supposed to reach soil is wasted in these piles resulting in depletion of soil health and there by plant health.
Generates Foul Smells ,Breeds Flies ,Insects, Rats , Dogs etc. Causing additional Health Hazards
Land/Space wasted by Dumping
Leachate from the dumpsites contaminates ground water.(Leachate is a by-product derived from municipal solid waste due to their physical, chemical, and biological changes and will be formed in landfills, incineration plants, composting plants, and transfer stations, with high strength and toxicity
Omega’s Solutions for decentralized Organic Waste Management at different level.
- Organic food wastes generated from Individual houses can be composted at source with three bin system without foul smell,lechate & maggots and the compost can be used for home garden
Organic waste generated in Apartment can be composted with larger composters.
- Organic waste generated in Agro industries can also be converted in to compost using solid state aerobic fermentation process.
- Farm residues can be composted.
Market Waste can be collected with the centralized facility in a segregated manner and converted in to compost.