'My Chennai Society Was a Biohazard—Now We Recycle 75,000 Litres Daily'

'My Chennai Society Was a Biohazard—Now We Recycle 75,000 Litres Daily'

Every Sunday morning, our 66-year-old neighbour, Venkat uncle, takes his torch and newspaper and heads downstairs—not for a walk, but to check on our sewage treatment plant. Yes, we have a sewage treatment plant in our apartment complex. No, it wasn’t built by the government. And no, we’re not some luxury green housing society. We’re just a regular bunch of residents who got tired of living with the stink, and the bills, and the feeling that no …