Corporation asks apartments to manage their wet waste

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The Hindu        18.05.2017  

Corporation asks apartments to manage their wet waste

Coimbatore Corporation has asked apartments to manage their wet waste and hand over to it only dry and recyclable waste.

In a release issued on Wednesday, the civic body said apartments could either go in for biogas plants to process the wet waste or turn it in to manure. They should either handover only dry and recylable waste to the Corporation, or sell these to recyclers.

As for households, the Corporation said it would collect the dry waste at their door-step but it should be segregated from the wet waste.

The directive on the wet waste was part of the Corporation's efforts to comply with the Central Government's directive to promote segregated waste collection from World Environment Day on June 5. The release also said that commercial establishments should also hand over waste only after segregation. The civic body issued the release after the Corporation Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan held a meeting with senior officials.