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Chennai Corporation launches initiative to recycle beverage cartons

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The Hindu    

Chennai Corporation launches initiative to recycle beverage cartons

Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner G. Prakash launched the ‘Take Me Back’ initiative to recycle beverage cartons into useful items.

According to a press release, the initiative is expected to create consumer awareness about recycling of used beverage cartons.

Collaborative effort

Dunzo will be the logistics partner by providing free doorstep pick-up of used cartons.

Used cartons will be sorted by women at the non-governmental organisation Arpanam Trust, which will help them with their livelihood. The collected cartons will be recycled into useful items and donated to less-privileged communities, in consultation with the Greater Chennai Corporation.

Special bins have been placed at all drop-off points across the city.

As part of this city-wide campaign, consumers will now have over 20 deposit points for their used beverage cartons at various retail stores across the city.

All collection centre details will be available at http://www.takemebackcampaign.com, according to the press release.

 

Chennai: Now, non-littering of roads is included in waste management

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The Times of India       25.12.2019

Chennai: Now, non-littering of roads is included in waste management

 

5,400 tonnes of waste generated in the city every day, more than 3,000 tonnes are generated in these seven zon...Read MoreMoving on from the existing tipping fee model, where the civic body paid private players on the weight of waste disposed at landfills, Greater Chennai Corporation is the country’s first to opt for the ‘cost of service delivery’ model.

Under the new system, the selected firm will, apart from collecting and transporting waste, should also ensure holistic hygiene by ensuring non-littering of garbage on roads, preventing overflowing of bins and complying with all environment, health and safety standards.

Urbaser SA and Sumeet Facilities Limited, a Spain-India joint venture which was on Tuesday issued work orders by municipal administration minister S P Velumani and Greater Chennai Corporation commissioner G Prakash, will collect and dispose waste in the Teynampet, Kodambakkam, Valasaravakkam, Alandur, Adyar, Perungudi and Sholinganllur zones for eight years. It will be paid based on 34 key performance indicators under primary collection, secondary collection and transport, street sweeping and collection, compliance, complaint redressal, IEC (information, education and communication).

“The joint venture firm is expected to achieve 100 % segregation in all households within one year and maintain it consistently,” according to a corporation engineer.

Battery-operated vehicles will be used for door to door collection of segregated and non-segregated garbage from households and market areas, horticultural waste from public places. Minimum guaranteed solid waste will also go to decentralized units. Cleanliness of bins will be an important factor and the firm will be marked on compliance on legal, EHS (employment, health and safety), non-mixing of waste, regular inspection.

“We will give marks for each of the 34 key performance indicators every day. The payment will be made according to the monthly average mark. Payments will be deducted in case of non-compliance. For instance, construction and demolitiion waste, horticultural waste, biomedical and hazardous waste should not be mixed with solid waste,” a corporation official said.

The firm is expected to set up a functional 24 X 7 call centre and redress all complaints within 12 hours. Apart from minimum required manpower for sweeping, a system will be in place for monitoring vehicle movement and bin clearance through a centralized management information system.

Last Updated on Monday, 30 December 2019 12:02
 

Chennai Corporation launches website to help buy, sell waste

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The Times of India           14.12.2019

Chennai Corporation launches website to help buy, sell waste

 

CHENNAI: Said to be the country’s first waste exchange platform, Greater Chennai Corporation on Friday launched www.madraswasteexchange.com that will help connect buyers and sellers of different kind of waste.

Corporation commissioner G Prakash on Friday inaugurated the website which will be run on a pilot basis for the first three months. Based on the response from public and waste recyclers, more features will be added to the website, officials said.

Through the website, members of the public too can buy recycled products from the corporation. An android app with the same name will also be up and running soon, officials said. The concept will also help the civic body fulfil its long-term goal of achieving zero waste by adopting the concept of a circular economy in waste management.

The civic body generates about 5220tonnes of waste a day. Of this, about 50% is wet waste, half of which is recycled as manure by various methods adopted by city corporation. The civic body is already providing doorstep delivery of manure and has also set up stalls in a mall too.

Efforts are on to set up three bio-incinerator plants on a public private partnership model to reduce the amount of waste going to the landfills.

“About 400tonnes of dry waste including tender coconut shells and garden waste that are collected every day will be sold to enterprises making activated charcoal, biofuel etc,” a corporation official said. The civic body also runs 64 resource recovery centres and 110 material recovery facilities in which the segregated waste collected from households are sent for recycling.

“The waste exchange website too is a step towards reducing the amount of waste that goes to the landfill. Our aim is to recover the landfills,” the official added.

While for now, only municipal solid waste will be handled through the platform, based on the response, the activity will be scaled up to include other waste like e-waste, construction and demolition waste, officials said adding it will be expanded to other smart cities in the state too.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 09:11
 
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