panaji around 750kg of wet waste and 1500kg of dry waste is generated every day of the lokotsav keeping in mind the volume of waste generated this year the festival has introduced a waste management project in a step towards solving the garbage issuehere the wet waste is directly fed into the processor unit built into a mobile van to be processed into organic material while the dry waste is segregated into seven categories before being handed over to the corporation of the city of panaji ccpthis is an attempt at making the festival a zerowaste event the wet waste will be converted into compost to be distributed among farmers through the directorate of agriculture said ashok parab deputy director directorate of art and culture dachaving bagged the eventplanning contract this year fusion events suggested to the dac to make the festival a zerowaste event the event management team then reached out to indorebased swaaha resource management pvt ltd to execute the projectthe team has executed this project at various events in indore the biggest event however was the bohracommunity festival ashara mubaraka in 2018 wherein we processed 25 tonnes of wet waste per day on site over the course of the 10day festival 250 tonnes of organic waste was converted into compost this was then handed over to the farmers of the bohra community said rohit aggarwal director swaaha the mobile processor unit has a capacity of processing 2000kg of wet waste per day in eighthour shifts at the lokotsav the unit operates for two to three hours per day to process the 750odd kg wet waste into compostthe dry waste is segregated into plastic bottles glass bottles polythene bags paper cups newspapers cardboard tetra packs and tin cans around five people segregate dry waste while one person manages the mobile wet waste processora truck from ccp comes to the festival venue twice a day to collect the segregated dry waste aggarwal said