MYSORE: A day after the
young and old rolled up their sleeves to clean-up the city with their
novel ‘Let’s do it Mysore’ campaign, the Mysore City Corporation
authorities are planning to rope in its participants to join the civic
body in managing waste. They want the participants to start segregating
waste at their homes and help the MCC.

MCC health officer Dr D G Nagaraj
said he appreciates the enthusiasm shown by 31,890 persons in their
unique campaign, which was a successful effort. “But now we request all
these participants to join hands with us and start segregating waste at
the source. This will help MCC in managing solid waste in a better way,”
he said.

The MCC wants them to begin at their homes by separating kitchen, dry and biomedical wastes and give it separately to the garbage
collectors. “If these participants cooperate with the MCC, we will
reserve a day in a week to collect only dry waste like paper, plastic
and cover, and kitchen waste on daily basis. One can keep dry waste,
which won’t decay, for a few days and this reduces the burden on the MCC
for segregating waste,” he suggested.

To a query, Nagaraj said
Mysore city has nearly two lakh households and only a few of them have
showed interest in segregating waste at the source. But this won’t help
the civic body unless at least half of the ward residents joined hands
with the MCC.

He also added that MCC was willing to join hands
with NGOs or voluntary groups to keep the city clean. “We are already
running zero waste management centres in association with women
self-help groups,” he pointed out.