Every month, every stream
The load barely moves. Garden material arrives at much the same rate all year, which is what a four-acre property with mature trees does.
Where each stream ends up
Three of the four organic streams are composted in the chambers and compost hut on the property. Arecanut, coconut and palm fronds are shredded and composted off site, at Sangraha Vikalpa's own facility.
| Stream | Kilograms | Share | What happens to it | Where |
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Month by month
Weights in kilograms. Sort by any column. A part month is still being recorded and is not in the totals elsewhere on this page.
Every lift, as it was logged
Kitchen waste cannot wait. Left in place it turns to odour and leachate within a day or two in this climate, so it is lifted every second or third day and bedded into the bin with bacteria and bio feed.
The four tall bars before December are month totals booked against a single date, not single pickups.
Kitchen waste by month
Bars are the month. The line is a three-month average.
Lifts logged each month
How often the bin was actually worked.
The step up in December 2025 is when daily logging began. Before that the sheet carried month totals only.
Fed to cattle instead
A second route for wet waste, used mostly through the cooler months.
The register, day by day
One square per day across the whole period. Filled squares are days the kitchen waste was lifted and turned into the compost bin.
What the garden gives
The garden stream, month by month
The loop at Nirvana
What comes back out
–The compost cells on the summary sheet are undated running totals, so they cannot be set against a period of feedstock to give a yield. Add a dated compost entry each month and this becomes a proper ratio. Compost made off site is not in this record.
Recovered by grade
Weight recovered and value returned
Rupee values were only written down from January 2026, so the total misses the first five months. December 2025 and September 2026 show no pickup at all.
What each stream counts
- Kitchen waste is wet food waste composted on the property in the mini compost bin, with food bacteria and bio feed.
- To cattle is wet waste given to cows instead of the bin. It is counted separately, so neither figure double counts the other.
- Garden is cow dung, fallen leaves, and arecanut, coconut and palm fronds, shredded before composting.
- Dry waste is recyclable material separated into grades at source and sold on to recyclers.
Where each stream is processed
Where this record is soft
Worth knowing before anyone leans on a number.
- Garden weights are a standing allowance. Cow dung is booked at 28 kg and fallen leaves at 60 kg on every single day of the year. That is an operational standard, not a weighing. Kitchen waste and dry waste are the precisely measured streams.
- The first four months are thinly logged. August 2025 carries a month total of 150 kg of kitchen waste with no daily entries behind it, and September to November have one to three entries each. Daily entries tie to the month totals from December 2025 onward.
- November 2025 does not reconcile. Its daily entries add to 154.88 kg against a month total of 129.88 kg; a 25 kg entry on 1 November is missing from the month total. The month total is used everywhere here except the daily chart.
- Dry waste value is incomplete. Rupee amounts are blank for August to December 2025, and for September 2026.
- Compost is recorded twice, and not since July 2026. Compost generated and compost used each appear once on the summary sheet, against the first twelve months. The yield on the Garden and compost tab is measured against the feedstock composted in that same window; applied to all fifteen months it would read lower, but only because the numerator has not been brought forward.
- September 2026 shows no dry waste at all. Zero kilograms and no rupee value, between two months that both recorded a pickup. Either none took place or it was not written down.
- Some day-level dry waste sits outside the month totals. On 22 August 2026 a 1.2 kg commercial iron entry is missing from that month's subtotal, and on 22 October 2026 commercial iron, black plastic and casting aluminium totalling 8.1 kg are likewise left out. This page follows the month subtotals, so those 9.3 kg are not counted anywhere here.
- A part month is pre-filled. The garden allowance for November 2026 is already booked for all thirty days even though the month is only part way through. That is why November is held out of the totals rather than added to them.
Period and units
Weights in kilograms, value in Indian rupees. Compiled from the daily site register kept at Vaishnavi Nirvana.