The Hindu 07.11.2013
Corporation’s poultry waste management gets better
Five vehicles with closed boxes will collect wastes from five zones
The Coimbatore civic body’s poultry waste management got
a step better after a tie-up with a private company for processing the
same.
Inaugurated
The new process was inaugurated at the Corporation’s main office on Tuesday.
According
to sources in the Coimbatore Corporation, the civic body would send the
two — three tonne-poultry waste — on weekends it is five — six tonnes —
to Vellalore, from where the private company, VKS Farms, would
transport the same to its fodder manufacturing unit.
The
sources said that the Corporation had distributed plastic bags
(bio-bags) to poultry shops in the city to dump the waste. The civic
body did not stop with distributing the bags, though. It also collected
the waste every morning, right at the doorstep.
There were five vehicles with closed boxes to collect the wastes from the five zones.
Until
recently, the Corporation would dump in pits in Vellalore the waste
that was collected. This move had faced opposition from the residents of
Vellalore, who had complained that it only worsened the situation at
the yard. The new arrangement was environment friendly, the sources
pointed out.
K. Mounasamy, Assistant General Manager,
VKS Farms, said that the company would use the poultry waste to
manufacture meat meal and concentrate feed. It got the waste from the
Corporation at no cost.
As for the Corporation there would be a savings of Rs. 18 lakh a year with the new arrangement.
