Sometimes, work is rewarded with more work. Clover By The River (CBTR), a gated community in Kotturpuram, is the recipient of such a reward. It considers itself to be in an enviable situation, because 12 other communities were seeking that increase in their daily workload.
The seeds of this competition, certainly not a no-holds-barred one, but one involving like-minded green souls and therefore one assumes it to have been more of “coopetition” (competition ruled by a spirit of cooperation), was scattered when the brains behind “We Segregate Stewardship Program” wanted to take it beyond Kasturba Nagar. In Kasturba Nagar, the visible sign of the initiative is three lane composters, and bagfulls of compost every three months.
The idea behind the contest was to have lane composters parked in at least one more community in Chennai.
(We Segregate project is funded by the Urban Ocean program and nurtured by Okapi Research & Advisory, ROKA and Chennai Resilience Centre with the support of on-ground partners which include Greater Chennai Corporation and Urbaser Sumeet).
The exercise to find a new community that could be “saddled” with the responsibility of lane-composting in its environs, had 13 contestants.
