Solid Waste Management

South corporation fleet to make west zone dump yard-free

Monday, 05 June 2017 12:01 administrator

The Times of India 05.06.2017

South corporation fleet to make west zone dump yard-free

TNN | Jun 5, 2017, 03.37 AM IST

NEW DELHI: In a bid to make its west zone free of dhalaos, South Delhi Municipal Corporation launched a fleet of mobile transfer stations and auto tippers on Sunday.

The mobile transfer stations, flagged off by LG Anil Baijal, will be deployed across the zone, like in the central and south zones, under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to promote the 3R concept of reducing, recycling and reusing waste.

Baijal said the new infrastructure would result in a huge savings in the west zone in eight years. "Scientific collection, systematic segregation of garbage, compressed volume, dumping of less waste in landfills and scope for recycling will provide an excellent opportunity to SDMC to convert waste into wealth. This is, in fact, need of the hour," he said.

Corporation commissioner P K Goel said this was the first-ever project of collection and management of garbage compatible with Solid Waste Management Rules 2016. "The new set up will be able to practically enforce complete check over open dumping, burning of waste and waste spillage during transportation, and ensure that there is no manual handling of waste," said Goel.

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"The current infrastructure is less expensive than the earlier one and will result in the management of 2,700 MT per day compared to 1,700 MT earlier," he added.

SDMC will develop a bio-methanation plant in the next phase to curb landfill fires and encourage segregation of waste at source, said Goel.

AOL recycling plant helps reduce plastic burden

Monday, 05 June 2017 11:32 administrator

The Times of Indian 05.06.2017

AOL recycling plant helps reduce plastic burden

TNN | Jun 5, 2017, 06.58 AM IST

At 8 on a Sunday morning, 10 people on board three tractors set out on a mission to five villages around The Art of Living International Centre, South Bengaluru. Their goal: collect and separate recyclable waste and transport it to AOL's Pyrolysis Plant.

The plant, with a capacity to reduce 200kg of plastic into fuel, gas and carbon, is an enormous step toward waste management.Twenty per cent of the fuel generated is used to run the plant itself, and the rest for power boilers in the ashram kitchen, which feed approximately 8 million people every year. The black carbon produced is used to asphalt roads.The plant is an efficient system that produces zero waste.

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The team of waste warriors is led by Satya Kumar. They work tirelessly from 8am to 6pm in the ashram as well -sometimes even till later on busy days -collecting waste from the 220 bins scattered within the ashram. The plant, inaugurated in May 2015, has decomposed thousands of tonnes of plastic. "We hope to tie up with a company that will coordinate with BBMP and bring plastic waste that's generated in the city. The capacity of the machine is huge. We're hoping this partnership will benefit the larger community ," says Satya.

BBMP takes cooperatives route to loosen stranglehold of contractors

Saturday, 03 June 2017 00:00 administrator

The Hindu 03.06.2017

BBMP takes cooperatives route to loosen stranglehold of contractors

Empowering them:Pourakarmikas will be the only members of the BBMP Link Workers Cooperative Societies.

Civic body also hopes to eliminate another problem: Inflating the number of pourakarmikas

In an attempt to eliminate the problem of contractor mafia and the duplication of pourkarmikas’ names, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is experimenting with forming cooperatives of solid waste management (SWM) workers at the ward levels and contracting work to them instead of contractors.

The pilot project is set to take off in 15 wards in Byatarayanapura and Sarvagna Nagar, the neighbouring Assembly constituencies of north and east Bengaluru represented by Ministers Krishna Byre Gowda and K.J. George respectively. Sarfaraz Khan, Joint Commissioner, SWM, BBMP, said that the bylaws for the societies, and drafts of MoUs between the civic body and the proposed societies were ready. Detailed proposals from five wards of Sarvagna Nagar were ready and proposals from other wards would be ready in a week, he added.

These co-operatives called ‘BBMP Link Workers Cooperative Society’ will have pourakarmikas – sweepers and garbage collectors presently working under contractors in the particular ward – as the only members. While the president and other office bearers will be elected from among the pourakarmikas, the BBMP will appoint an assistant executive engineer rank official as the CEO of each society. BBMP will henceforth pay their salaries to the society which will in turn disburse the same to the members, according to the bylaws, a copy of which is available with The Hindu .

The bylaws also provide for a board of management with a total of 16 members. Three of these, a BBMP chief engineer, a master trainer in waste management and a representative from Residents’ Welfare Association, will be invited. However, they will have no voting rights or profit shares. The board will have a term of five years. The office, furniture and operational costs will be borne by BBMP. The society will also have an advisory board to be headed by the ward councillor and the ward committee.

N.S. Ramakanth, SWM Expert Committee, BBMP, said the cooperative society was one of the best models to eliminate the contractor mafia in garbage management. “Today, the entire city is at the mercy of the contractors. They have even boycotted the new garbage tenders and forced the BBMP to pay them arbitrarily. The cooperative model will eliminate them,” he said, and added that the scheme will empower pourakarmikas, who are expected to face resistance from the councillors.

However, the pourakarmika unions are cautious. Vinay Sreenivasa, BBMP Contract Pourakarmika Union, said their demand for regularisation of all contract pourakarmikas that even the State cabinet decided on would not be diluted. “In the cooperative societies, BBMP will pay to the society instead of directly to the pourakarmikas. In the event of any issues within the society, BBMP may shirk responsibility,” he said, and added that the civic body should hold wide-ranging consultations with all the pourakarmika unions over the issue.

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