The Hindu          06.06.2012

Waste collection: buckets to be distributed in Alappuzha

A meeting of the Municipality council here decided to launch projects to collect segregated waste from households under its jurisdiction.

The meeting held here on Tuesday to find an urgent solution to the vexing waste problem decided to distribute buckets to families in 10 wards in the municipality to segregate bio-degradable and plastic wastes as part of processing these wastes. A total of Rs 32 lakh will be earmarked for distributing buckets from the waste processing fund of the municipality. Many who spoke at the meeting pointed out that the problem with waste processing in the town was the mixing of bio-degradable waste and plastic waste. The distribution of separate buckets for these wastes is expected to solve this problem of mixing of wastes.

An all-party team of councillors will be sent to study the waste processing plant of Kottayam municipality. The team will also visit Thiruvananthapuram to seek help from Chief Minister Ooomen Chandy and other Ministers.

The meeting also decided to further strengthen the existing ban on plastic in the municipal area. Demands were raised at the meeting that punitive action should be taken against those who work against the plastic ban. Bio-gas plants will be set up in hotels in the town. The meeting also decided to cancel the licenses of those hotels which do not set up the plant.

Councillors, Prem, Ramesh, Althaf and V.G.Vishnu of the LDF and Illikkal Kunjumon, A.A.Rasaq, Sunil George, O.K.Shafeeq, Raju Thanickal, M.M.Sherif, Basheer Koyaparambil from the UDF were among those who spoke at the meeting.

A total of Rs 32 lakh will be earmarked for distributing buckets.