The Hindu 21.01.2015
Thuraiyur municipality adopts new waste management system
It plans to set up a shed for segregation of garbage
The Thuraiyur municipality has introduced solid waste management programme for separating the degradable and non-degradable waste. The municipality has adopted a multipronged approach for managing the solid waste.
The municipality has cleared a huge volume of garbage at its old dumping yard on Sorathur Road. “Excess accumulation of garbage on the municipal site had resulted in various public health-related issues, including pig menace and presence of anti-social elements,” say municipal sources.
To tide over the problem, the municipality has successfully persuaded the local residents who owned a piece of land in the adjoining area. A large heap of the garbage from the municipal site had been taken to this private land.
“The shifting of a huge volume of garbage from the municipal to the private land has eased the solid waste management at this area,” say the sources.
The municipality has planned to set up a segregation shed at the area for effective management of the solid waste. Second, the municipality had introduced door-to-door collection of garbage duly segregated at source in select six wards in the municipality. “Bio-degradable and non-degradable waste is collected after segregation at source,” the source said.
At present, the municipality handles 15 tonnes of garbage daily.