The Times of India 04.06.2017
Greater Chennai Corporation to raise awareness on segregating waste at home
CHENNAI: The official theme for World Environment Day which falls on June 5 is connecting people with nature. But priorities for Greater Chennai Corporation lies in the basics — separating your waste at home.
Officials are attempting creative posters and are trying to gather
people to take mass pledges to launch source segregation as an everyday
practice, which is an extension of the centre’s Swachh Bharat Mission.
The Ministry of Urban Development has been exerting pressure on the city corporation to show results and set a target.
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Will not work.
segregated and does not go to the landfills in Kodungaiyur and
Perungudi. “The Ministry of Urban Development has been asking us when we
are going to achieve 100% segregation but it is hard to set a target
now,” said a source in the solid waste management department working to
promote the union government’s mission adding, “We can’t achieve 100%
until we have composting pits in all wards and we are in the process of
identifying vacant lands and awaiting funds to carry them out.”
Though civic officials have been conducting door-to-door awareness and
demos on separating wet waste from dry waste and recycling methods,
officials believe a special launch on a global day of observation could
raise awareness. “The Ministry of Urban Development has sent us a model
for campaigning and the entire department is working on that,” said the
official. Presently, gated communities and apartments primarily in
central Chennai, south Chennai and Manali in north Chennai are leading the way in source segregation in the city.
