The Hindu 02.03.2015
Corpn. launches Guinness attempt on litter collection
2 lakh people to participate in the mission
Coimbatore Corporation CommissionerK. Vijayakarthikeyan (right)
launching waste collection, as part of the Clean City Championship, at
Ramanathapuram in the city on Sunday.
The Corporation on Sunday began the campaign to make
source segregation of waste a habit for the residents of the city and
simultaneously enter the Guinness Book of World Records for involving
the highest number of people in such a venture.
Corporation
Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan said that the ‘Coimbatore Guinness
Championship Campaign’ was a week-long programme in which the residents
will have to segregate the domestic waste into three categories –
recyclable, non-recyclable and hazardous.
Conservancy
workers will collect the waste at their doorsteps. Volunteers will
evaluate the effort at both ward and zonal levels of the civic body.
“Within
a week, we hope to make segregation a habit. The target is to have two
lakh people participate in the litter collection and segregation
campaign on March 8. The current record, being held by a Japanese city,
was around 1.4 lakh,” he added.
The Corporation was
distributing cards to school students for making entries on litter
segregation. Campaign organisers said that hundreds of conservancy
workers in all the five zones covering 100 wards were being trained in
waste segregation and collection. Cash prizes to the tune of Rs. 5 lakh
would be given for best-performing conservancy workers.
The
Commissioner interacted with workers who, he said, were happy with the
recognition that this campaign entailed rather the monetary awards.
The
Corporation, non-government organisations, education institutions and
business firms conducted an awareness campaign for the past one week in
the city on waste management.