Growing from trash

Green vision: Alam Flora chief executive officer Mohd Zain Hassan next to the Bio-Mate machine his company purchased to test the feasibility of composting organic waste in Putrajaya and three bags of the waste commonly used for the exercise, namely (left to right) food waste, over-ripe bananas and vegetable residue. -BRIAN MOH/The Star

COMPOSTING is nothing new.

It used to be common practice for people to bury organic waste like eggshells and anchovy peels in the ground as that not only stopped bad smells but also conditioned the soil.