The vegetable remains and other organic wastes discarded at Chalai
and other market places under the health circles of the City Corporation
will soon enrich the farmlands in the city. The Corporation, in a novel
initiative, will separate plastic and other hazardous waste from the
garbage piles in these places, load it on to trucks and transport it to
the locations where the ‘manure’ is required, provided the areas are
located within a radius of 25 kilometres.

 Farmers need to do only
this much, dial any of these four numbers: 9496434433, 9496434466,
9496434488 or 9496434492, and the City Corporation will transport for
free the ‘organic manure.’

The calls will be received at the
health wing of the Corporation and the trucks from the garage will set
out to collect the separated waste and from there ply to the farmland.

 Albeit
calling manure, it is not subjected to any processing and does not have
the nature of compost.  Separation of the organic and inorganic
materials will be done by the Corporation workers.

“Right now,
waste materials from the areas where market wastes are dumped and from
Chalai are going to be given as manure as more organic waste will be
available there and separating the waste will be easier. The garbage on
the roadsides and public places will continue to be treated as it is
done now, by sprinkling inoculum,” said a health official.