The Times of India 09.03.2013
Panaji civic body to start four-bin segregation system
PANAJI: The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) plans to start a 4-bin waste segregation system in Panaji. The system will be started in a phased manner in various parts of the city and will first be implemented in Miramar area.
CCP sources said Panaji generates 26 trucks of dry non-biodegradable waste. Such waste is from households on Mondays and Thursdays on a weekly basis. It comprises of all types of plastics, paper, metal, glass, styrofoam, cloth, shoes, slippers, rexine among other materials. Further sorting of this dry waste into different fractions when it is all heaped together is a tedious, time consuming and labour intensive exercise.
Aiming to solve the problem, the CCP decided to introduce the 4-bin segregation of waste at source, into four categories namely plastics, paper, metal or glass and non-recyclables.
This system was put in place since August, 2011, for all the hotels and restaurants in the city and in around 60 housing colonies which has since helped to effectively treat 13 out of the 26 truck loads of waste generated weekly by the city.
The Miramar area generates four truck loads of dry waste per week. The CCP in its phase-wise plan proposes to start the 4-bin segregation and collection system in Miramar from March 18.
Hundred B.Ed students from the Nirmala institute of education, Altinho, who have been trained by the CCP's waste management cell, will be visiting each household in Miramar on the March 11-12 to explain the modalities of segregating dry waste at source and the collection mode to residents.
Those residents of Panaji who live in areas that are not yet covered by the 4-bin segregation system and who would voluntarily like to help, could deposit their dry segregated waste into the 'Recycling Station' set up at the dry waste sorting centre in St Inez, during working hours only.
CCP sources said Panaji generates 26 trucks of dry non-biodegradable waste. Such waste is from households on Mondays and Thursdays on a weekly basis. It comprises of all types of plastics, paper, metal, glass, styrofoam, cloth, shoes, slippers, rexine among other materials. Further sorting of this dry waste into different fractions when it is all heaped together is a tedious, time consuming and labour intensive exercise.
Aiming to solve the problem, the CCP decided to introduce the 4-bin segregation of waste at source, into four categories namely plastics, paper, metal or glass and non-recyclables.
This system was put in place since August, 2011, for all the hotels and restaurants in the city and in around 60 housing colonies which has since helped to effectively treat 13 out of the 26 truck loads of waste generated weekly by the city.
The Miramar area generates four truck loads of dry waste per week. The CCP in its phase-wise plan proposes to start the 4-bin segregation and collection system in Miramar from March 18.
Hundred B.Ed students from the Nirmala institute of education, Altinho, who have been trained by the CCP's waste management cell, will be visiting each household in Miramar on the March 11-12 to explain the modalities of segregating dry waste at source and the collection mode to residents.
Those residents of Panaji who live in areas that are not yet covered by the 4-bin segregation system and who would voluntarily like to help, could deposit their dry segregated waste into the 'Recycling Station' set up at the dry waste sorting centre in St Inez, during working hours only.
