Outside Delhi’s Jhandewalan temple are hawkers selling mata ki chunnis (ceremonial red and gold cloth) and garlands. With 5,000-10,000 devotees visiting every day, and most of them offering flowers, the temple generates about 200kg of floral waste daily.

On Tuesdays and Sundays, it’s upwards of 500kg, and during Navratri it can touch a tonne a day. Over the last year, though, the temple has been composting its flower waste, making sure it doesn’t end up as an unsightly mass on riverbanks or in landfills.

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Surendra Kumar, who has worked at the temple for 24 years, was trained to use the machine that was installed last year.