Waste management at Trans Indus, one of the housing complexes built by BCIL: Each house composts its kitchen waste by vermicomposting. A container with worms and compost is kept behind the house near the kitchen. Resident Baskar Subramanian says this is easy to manage at the household level and does not require much maintenance. The compost is used on the campus with the gardens and farms. Some residents have small organic plots growing tomatos, onions, beans, eggplants, radishes, and pumpkins. Most of the work is done by hired staff and not residents themselves. (Having household help is very much an unquestioned tradition for the Indian middle and upper classes.)
