The integration of the agricultural and Waste Management Services.

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My Dear Bhakti Tirtha Swami,

 

Please Accept my humble obeisances. All glories to our Beloved Srila

Prabhupada. Who is saving us at every moment and giving us the intelligence

to solve all our problems.

 

I do hope you are well and not over-doing it too much, without your good

health we will suffer.

 

Riddha prabhu came to my house and transfered some files to me on Y2K and

"survival" from your texts. I found these very encouraging. Even if nothing

is going to happen, as some beleive, it is a brilliant way forward for

preaching of self-sufficiency, unity and how to work together!

 

I was especially drawn to the entry in the Gita Nagari temple report by

Pariksit das in Gita Nagari:

>WASTE TREATMENT PLANT

>Pariksit prabhu spoke to an engineer to get a permit from the PA Dep. Of

>Enviromental Protection.

>The engineer is coming Wed. at 9:30 AM to survey the area. Pariksit and

>Ekavira

>will meet with him.

 

In this connection I have some very positive news for you.

Since the company, Ecological Sciences of Exeter University, deployed me to

travel to Amman two years ago on a mission to get a waste disposal contract

with the govt. there who are experiencing severe difficulties with city

garbage they have contacted me in connection with the 'Eclipse 99 event'

due in August this year in Cornwall. They are expecting between 3 - 6

million people and the roads are already practically impassable at this time

of year due to the tourist influx.

 

I met for three hours with the head of the Walker Group who gave me the

spec. for this proposed event written by 'Brigadier Gauge Williams OBE' who

is a major co-ordinator. Without sending you this paper I'm sure you can

envisage the enormity of this project. The people are being encouraged to

stay for one month to avoid total breakdown of PERSONNEL movement on the

roads! Already on the radio they are suggesting road blocks for all roads

into Cornwall at some point to regulate the inflow and that 6 million pounds

have been sent to Cornwall by central government just to deal with waste

management.

 

The operation he tells me is being notified to the military and the RAF

bases are to hold stocks of food that can be air lifted where necessary.....

The reason for my involvement is that of waste disposal.

Eco Science Ltd., compost all the green waste of the City of Plymouth and

have developed a product named 'Zoopoo' from zoos and have sold 200 tons to

the B&Q supermarket chain last year, much of it also goes in bulk to

agriculture. The MD tells me they have become extremely solvent due to their

success in this market.Therefore they understand the potential for disposing

of enormous amounts of waste from such proposed camp sites across Cornwall

by the composting method.

As there will be no access by road the conventional 'chemical toilet'

disposal tankers will not be able to operate. The specification in the

Brigadiers paper is for 36,000 chemical toilets. There simply aren't that

many available in the country. What to do.

 

I prepared a presentation, similar to that made to the SMPDC in Radlett

offices at the planning stage for the development of Sridham Mayapur before

we went to India to begin our compost factory project there. The Eco Science

head scientist was very supportive in his introduction to Mr. Walker who was

suitably impressed as to immediately take our book The Lost Science Of

Organic Cultivation as practiced in India a few years before. He said he was

taking it for his chief architect for planning and his head engineer for

contractual development to review. He liked the idea so much of bulk waste

disposal on site of all restaurant and fast food waste in conjunction with

all 'orgainic toilet waste' and he said there will be no problem with

machinery. All the Cornish Council vehicular department will be at your

disposal, but on site! ie., from field to field without having to use any

roads. We simply plan fields between camp sites for the composting

operations to take place on a daily basis. I said that if you leave the

large factory made Satvik Indore Toilet units when full (for 100 persons

each) standing for 10 days in a holding compound there will be no smell when

you mechanically empty them out onto the windrows. He immediately replied,

being mathematically minded, this will take up too much valuable space, I

want them emptied daily. I said this would be fine as long as the men

involved wear gass masks.

 

We discussed that my first job was to meet with the Environment Agency. The

government body that oversees and regulates the environmental activities of

councils and other bodies activities at any time in this country.

 

Mr. Walker gave me a list of contacts and I proceeded from the meeting

feeling that maybe Howard (of whom we believe Srila Prabhupada knew and

approved) actually has a solution to a modern day problem!

 

In my view he has. If we are to act in an Environmentally friendly way,

employ people, (and animals for transport) and turn garbage into a top

quality fetilizer in 90 days, then this thermophylic composting method,

known as the Indore system will be extremely useful in times of dire need.

 

And why not on a regular basis? It is simply a question of infrastructure

management. It is clean, smell free, and creates no nitrate run-off to water

courses. The Environment agency is so far suitably impressed.They are

studying the implications of this system, as I managed to send them a copy

which I had again procured from another previous customer! due to running

out of stocks at the moment. One problem they envisaged was the subsequent

disposal of bulk urine to agriculture, after it is separated in the Satvik

Indote Toilet system, (named by His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja at the

Mayapur Development Office). They thought this may cause a problem with

nitrate run off. I proceeded to the Elm Farm Research Centre, of the Soil

Association, to make an inquiry from one scientist Lois Phillips, who has

been doing nitrate studies for many years. She agreed (in a nutshell) that

organic nitrates, as contained in urine, could be safely applied to

agriculture at the rate of 3,000 gallons per acre through farm sprayers,

just as slurry applications are made without problems; and with extreme

benefit to any agricultural system. There is incidentally more beneficial

goodies in urine than dung.... It is chemical applications that cause the

problems.

 

 

So the question remains whether the Environment Agency of the United Kingdom

will actually be sufficiently convinced to alter the legislation or impose

some temporary regulation to cater for such large scale waste management

......we shall see...

 

 

Back to Gita Nagari Farm.

If your men study our book which they are waiting for and can take on the

composting system that springs from the Indore Cattleshed Management system

then all your waste and sanitation problems will be dealt with in one swoop.

Plus it will be of tremenduous value in the return of nutrients to any

agricultural or horticultural application. Thus improving the health of the

devotees.

 

If your men are agreeable I can come there and initiate the programme.

 

Your servant,

 

Radha Krsna das.