Even as the city struggles with managing household waste, Pali Hill residents have shown just how well it can be done. The residents' unique initiative has now produced two-and-a-half kg of a variety of vegetables that will be donated to an old people's home next week. The waste-to-energy initiative also lights up 70 streetlights in the area.

Last year, the society installed a waste-to-energy plant with help from Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) which processes a tonne of garbage and the plant produces 300 kg of manure every week.