Leaf Shredder to Use Organic Waste

This 74-Year-Old Designed His Own Leaf Shredder to Use Organic Waste from His Garden as Compost

“Waste collection and public composting activities are very poor in Bengaluru. I live in one of the old houses in the city where we have a large garden that generates a lot of organic waste. I have been trying to persuade the corporation people to set up an organic composting plant for a long time now, but that has not happened yet. I didn’t want to throw the waste away or burn the leaves like many other do, so I decided to design a leaf shredder myself,” says S. Chandra Shekar, a resident of Jayanagar in Bengaluru.

The 74-year-old developed the machine so that organic waste generated in his garden can be shredded and used to nourish the soil in the garden itself.