The Hindu       21.03.2016  

BBMP looks to establish waste transfer stations

With the aim of doing away with the ungainly sight of
garbage getting unloaded from smaller collection vehicles — usually
autorickshaws — into a bigger vehicle parked on the street, the BBMP is
planning to install waste transfer stations at key locations in the
city.

“We have identified a place in Cox Town where
we will be setting up such a station on a pilot basis. We hope to have
the logistics sorted out and get the project up and running by the end
of this year,” said Subodh Yadav, Special Commissioner, Solid Waste
Management, BBMP.

He said this way, garbage would not be left strewn on the street during the transfer.

At
a waste transfer station, the garbage unloaded from collection vehicles
will be held briefly and later, it will be reloaded into long-distance
transport vehicles for shipment.

The facility will
have a compactor and the waste will be loaded onto a tray which then
moves to shift the fresh waste onto the compactor without any spillage.
The compacted waste will then be sent to the BBMP’s new processing
plants.

However, civic experts believe the idea will
work only if such facilities are put up across the city. “I do not know
whether the city has enough space to accommodate so many stations. These
sort of things will have to be worked out if this to run successfully,”
said N.S. Ramakanth, member of Solid Waste Management Round Table, a
citizens’ group that has also worked with BBMP to provide solutions to
the city’s garbage woes.