Around 100 B.Ed students from Nirmala Institute, Altinho, went to
various houses in Miramar to inform residents about the new system and
seek their cooperation. The four-bin system segregation will start on
March 18.

Miramar generates four truckloads of dry
non-biodegradable waste per week, which is collected every Monday and
Thursday by the CCP. This waste, in a mixed form includes paper, plastic
bags, cloth, leather, rubber, tetrapak, which makes it difficult to
segregate once it is heaped together with similar waste from other parts
of the city.

The process is time consuming and
labour-intensive. Also, it is found that a large portion of wet waste is
also discarded by residents in plastic bags into the dry waste
collection.

The CCP stated that around 60 housing colonies in Panaji have moved on to the four-bin segregation system.

Residents have been urged to hand over segregated waste to the CCP
collection workers in four different parts collected either in bins or
bags.