Our Goa clone is happy and willing to share this information with everybody . This is an email written to us by Yogita Mehra, our clone in Goa. Good luck Yogita and our wishes to you to keep up the good work.

The Majorda Panchayat is in the process of ordering another 25 Bada Khambas (we'd sent 25 to another forum in the same village in November)...this was at the Village Gram Sabha which is held on Goa Liberation Day (19th Dec).

The panchayat will give these to residents at subsidised costs aided by a generous donor.

Here's a photo of the Panchayat members with their Khambas...

More when we have confirmed things with them...

Wishing all of you a great Chirstmas and lots more composting in 2010!!

Yogita Mehra

Meera Rajesh shares the images of the environment snippets sent out to employees at TCS , Bangalore. The Environment Focus group at TCS has been sending out snippets every week, through which they share some simple environment related tips. Last week's focus was on waste management and our Kambha featured in the section on what can be done to the wet waste generated at home.

We need more "green people" like Meera and her enthusiastic colleagues, to spread awareness about what each one can do to tackle household waste at source.

Mr Sudhakar from Green Tel Foundation, put up an exclusive stall at Hotel Tech Expo recently held in Secunderabad. He intends to further promote daily dump composting in Hyderabad. We wish him good luck in his endevour.

We had Tom Wooning a Marketing Consultant come to Daily Dump to help us grow the market.

An organisation called Share People (http://www.sharepeople.nl/en/index.phtml) in Netherlands makes this kind of support possible for small companies in emerging economies.

Tom conducted many sessions with the team and also visited the outlets, studied the market and our company processes. While doing this, he joked, discussed, provoked and planned how we could implement some of the ideas that emerged.

The whole experience was energizing for the team and we emerged with a plan and some priorities for the next 6 months.

Thanks Tom and now that Tom is voted as our Marketing Guru, we hope that we will see him and his wife back soon.

Tom Wooning experience in Daily Dump :Read

" I do not want to ever stop using Khambha composting ", says Meera, a daily Dump customer. She achieves her goal of zero waste by composting the wet waste in a Kambha and selling off the dry waste to the recyclers. We are greteful to such customers for joining hands to keep the city clean.

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Jayadeep, a customer of Daily Dump, finds comfort in putting the
natural cycle back in motion when he composts wet waste in a
Khamba. Read more about his home composting experience on his
blog.

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We were very touched to see a customer's child draw this picture of his family! Trupti's son Ishan drew this lovely drawing which includes the composter his family and other flats use. This is the kind of identity we hope to create around this product - your family is incomplete without a composter!!!

We have a new clone in Chile. We would like to welcome Paola Santoro from Chile who has already made a composter. See the photos and she and her husband are very excited to be part of this process of encouraging people to compost at home. She plans to translate all our communication material into Spanish and since she is a designer herself, it will be great to see the result of that exercise. The Other businesses she is involved with = Organic products for gardening, some plants, home orchards design for small gardens in the city. That is the Kambha they have made and soon the Kambha will have a Chilean name!

Whoever thought that terracotta pots would be associated with boosting health, happiness etc.
We like to also add "dignity" to this

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Poonam Bir Kasturi has been selected as one of the TEDIndia Fellows and will be taking the composting message to this audience at the conference.

TED is thrilled to announce the 103 TEDIndia Fellows! This diverse group of artists, entrepreneurs, scientists, musicians, activists, doctors, researchers, filmmakers and teachers provides a snapshot of the creativity and innovation emerging from South Asia.

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Ganesh Chaturthi is a very popular and widely celebrated festival in Goa. But the environmental impact of this festival can be very high – the immersion of plaster-of-paris idols, lots of flowers and garlands and so on…

The Corporation of the City of Panjim, along with citizens from the city, came up with the idea of conducting an experiment (in progress now) to encourage people to place their garlands and floral offerings in our Leave-it-Pots instead of putting them into the river. Many little details and sensitivities were considered to encourage the use of these pots (which are composters designed by DailyDump) — and here’s how they finally turned out…

Read on to see how Trupti wears many hats - she makes sure she sells the idea of home composting, manages her home and children and still gets time to do so much more.

If you find it okay and want to use it in your website/anywhere please feel free to do so

Thanks,

Satabdi

We use Kambha and we are pretty happy with it. We have made a video and shared it through youtube.

Thanks

Poonam

Navneeth Raghavan has managed to sell 500 composters in Chennai. This was a moment of great pride for all of us at Daily Dump. The clone community feels re-energized by Navneeth's achievement.

Part 1: http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=Q8hxO4couXc

Part 2:http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=UwuHdmjD8aY

Eklaya Publications has used our material in their magazines and it feels good to see the concepts in our national language.

We had sent them the original print files and they will carry parts over the coming year in their issues.

Inspite of the fact that we have a unconventional business model, we made it to the final round of the Sankalp Social Enterprise and Investment Forum Award.

The event was held in Mumbai and the VC's who heard our presentation naturally were unsure on how our business will grow. It was nice to meet people who have all achieved so much in the social impact area.

Dr Jaya Deshpande has begun selling Kambhas in Gurgoan.

Her mail says

“We have started environment movement for preserving our earth by reducing Garbage through Daily Dump Product at Delhi & NCR on this day 1st Feb 09; I mean we 've sold our first unit to Mr.Rajendran -Asst.Editor Business World.

It is my pleasure to be part of the daily dump family for making things to happen in reality for environment cause. We are trying extensively for demos and awareness in Delhi NCR region during coming days.

I've enclosed few snaps including our First Customer at Delhi. We hope that our next lot of kambhas will look better then first lot.”

Jaya

Evangelist customers Babita Saxena and Anjana Ghosh from this gated community are passionate about waste issues. They convinced their community that it was a good idea to compost at the individual home level and we trained their maintenance staff to keep the composters going. This programme was kicked off on Republic Day at their clubhouse with children making presentations and skits around the theme of waste.

Dear all

The kambhas are being produced in Mumbai now - finally! And, best of all, the potter is about 20 minutes drive from my home (when there is no traffic!).

He has made moulds for the pots, so the product is more consistent. The production can also be quicker - he can get out 300 kambhas a month.
The lid and rims/handles are made at the wheel.

We went through a 2 month process of making a prototype on the wheel, then the moulds, and an initial version of 10 kambhas that failed because the mud didn't have the right strength. So now the mud is being brought from Gujarat and that is good enough.

After the Mumbai distribution is settled, I would like to find potters and set up clones in the nearby towns Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune and Nashik.

Regards

Anil

Yogita and Karan open their store in Goa named Green Essentials. Like Yogita says in her mail :

To tell you a little about Green Essentials:

Green Essentials is a store that sells beautiful products that make a real difference to our immediate environment, making it cleaner and chemical-free. Through this store we are aiming at making available, natural products that are substitutes for the the chemical-based, everyday essentials in or lives. Some of the products we are stocking include home composting units (Daily Dump), Natural pesticides, insecticides and bug-repellents, chemical-free fertilisers, EM-based products etc...

We are currently in the process of testing other products that will soon make it to our shelves.

We are sure this store is going to do really well and we hope that they will be able to source their next lot of pots from local potters.

Daily Dump got an award. “This is an appreciation for your good work & contribution to Innovation. The Award would consist of a Statuette and a Citation.” STAR ENTERPRENEUR AWARD". Delara Damania graciously went to Mumbai to accept this award.