SPOTLIGHT Composting Movement Alka Damle can rightly be termed as a social reformer. A former Maths teacher living in Mormugao, she is known for creating awareness among the general public for over a decade now. Leading by example, she has been personally composting her own domestic waste, besides running active campaigns, thus trying to educate others on the importance of segregation and handling domestic waste. She speaks to EVESCAPE about a recently launched waste composting initiative and the role citizens need to play. Excerpts... The Initiative We all know that 70 percent of the garbage dumped across the state, can be recycled by the citizens themselves who generate the same. We all can easily give back to the mother earth what we get from her by composting our waste. This very thought made a well known experienced young environmentalist, Abhinav Apte from Ponda, Goa to take up this challenge. For this he came up with an idea of having a group ‘comepost ville’ ....