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Sometimes, enactment is rewarded with much work. Clover By The River (CBTR), a gated assemblage successful Kotturpuram, is the recipient of specified a reward. It considers itself to beryllium successful an enviable situation, due to the fact that 12 different communities were seeking that summation successful their regular workload.
The seeds of this competition, surely not a no-holds-barred one, but 1 involving like-minded greenish souls and truthful 1 assumes it to person been much of “coopetition” (competition ruled by a tone of cooperation), was scattered erstwhile the brains down “We Segregate Stewardship Program” wanted to instrumentality it beyond Kasturba Nagar. In Kasturba Nagar, the disposable motion of the inaugural is 3 lane composters, and bagfulls of compost each 3 months.
The thought down the contention was to person lane composters parked successful astatine slightest 1 much assemblage successful Chennai.
(We Segregate task is funded by the Urban Ocean programme and nurtured by Okapi Research & Advisory, ROKA and Chennai Resilience Centre with the enactment of on-ground partners which see Greater Chennai Corporation and Urbaser Sumeet).
The workout to find a caller assemblage that could beryllium “saddled” with the work of lane-composting successful its environs, had 13 contestants.
In the archetypal round, the contestants were quizzed by a panel, says Ayesha A., probe associate, Okapi Research and Advisory. Their SWM journeys were being tracked to spot if the further work would person their existent SWM programme enhanced oregon person it breached down the back.
Based connected the study, 3 made it to the shortlist — RK Nagarra from Mandaveli, SIMPLE from Thalambur and Clover By The River from Kotturpuram.
“All the 3 were beardown contestants, each of them having an unsocial and inspiring SWM way record,” says Ayesha. “The victor was collectively chosen by Okapi Research and Advisory, ROKA, Chennai Resilience Center and Urban Ocean teams.”
Clover By The River volition find 2 lane composters parked successful its cervix of the woods successful January 2026, aft Pongal, says Ayesha.
Here is simply a glimpse of the SWM ethos astatine this gated assemblage successful Kotturpuram done the eyes of wrong volunteer. This is based connected a papers a resident-volunteer of the Green Team successful the assemblage shared with The Hindu Downtown.
“We are a young, 3 twelvemonth old, 300 apartment, gated assemblage successful Kotturpuram. Once residents started moving successful during 2022, we realised that we had a radical of like-minded residents funny successful activities relating to sustainable living. The Green Team was formed erstwhile hardly 30 residents had moved in. Being a 300 flat assemblage we were categorised arsenic bulk discarded generators by the Greater Corporation of Chennai). We besides understood that due discarded segregation was not conscionable important for the assemblage and the situation but besides mandated by the GCC. After overmuch discussion, observation, monitoring, investigating and consulting taxable substance experts we realised that the in-house composter we were using, produced output that was perchance harmful to the ungraded and plants successful the agelong run. With the enactment of our Association we were capable to travel up with an alternate method of greenish discarded handling that was besides acceptable to the GCC. We present person a GCC empanelled vendor who picks up our greenish discarded and cull waste. Our recyclable plastics are collected by Bisleri arsenic portion of their CSR initiative.”
