Thiruvananthapuram: Government Model Boys’ HSS will be the first city school to have a park based on aerobic bins if a project pursued by a group of architects gets realised. The project has been conceived with the hope that waste will stop getting associated with everything that needs to be tucked away to the backyard.
Instead, this will be a space for children to play around in the garden to be fed by the manure from the bins. People in the neighbourhood can also deposit their waste. The manure from the bins will be used to feed a nursery, and the plants will be tended to by children.
The project will be funded partly by the corporation, while the school will have to raise the rest of the amount. It is being designed by Recycle Bin, an organisation of architects who had earlier created a monument out of plastic pet bottles during the corporation’s Expo of Plastic Waste Alternatives.
Its co-founder Ganga Dileep says, “Waste in aerobic bins does not stink. So then why can’t waste infrastructure be away from the public eye? The school’s backyard is where the park will be created, but the idea is to make a frontyard out of the backyard. There will be an entrance through which the local community can bring their waste.” The bins here will help address the dumping of waste near the school’s back gate. More than that, according to Ganga, it will help people overcome the stigma associated with waste. “Spaces induce change. A design of space can make a social impact,” she says. The project estimate is being prepared.
