The Hindu 15.07.2013
New technologies needed to treat waste: Bangalore Mayor
Inaugurates workshop on waste management in Hubli
Underscoring the need for active cooperation of people in effective solid waste management, Bangalore Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy has said there was a need for alternative technologies to treat solid waste.
Speaking after inaugurating a workshop on ‘Waste Management and Best Out of Waste’ organised by the Institute of Business Management and Research (IBMR) here on Saturday, Mr. Murthy said the waste disposal methods being undertaken in Bangalore should be adopted across the State.
Underscoring the need for segregation of bio-degradable and non-degradable waste at the point of generation, Mr. Murthy said it was important that people separate waste and put them into separate bags at their houses.
Disposal
Elaborating on the garbage disposal issue Bangalore faced a few months ago, the Bangalore Mayor said garbage clearance had become a problem for the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike because of the inclusion of many town panchayats and municipal councils under the BBMP without undertaking any planned measures.
He said the farmers of villages surrounding Bangalore, who earlier used garbage as manure for their farmlands, had stopped doing so due to the presence of plastic in garbage.
Mr. Murthy said Bangalore alone generated 5,000 tonnes of solid waste everyday and BBMP had initiated steps to get the waste processed through scientific methods so as to produce crude oil, biomethane and vermicompost.
Director of Kousali Institute of Management Studies under Karnatak University, A.H. Chachadi said there was a need to look at waste as a resource, as several useful products could be made out of it.
The former mayor of Hubli-Dharwad, Pandurang Patil, said there was a need to adopt technology to mechanically segregate waste at the dumping yard and to treat it on the day of generation.
Karnatak University Registrar G.B. Nandan, chairman of IBMR Group of Institutions Vinaychandra Mahendrakar, dean Rajendra Malowade and others were present.
On the occasion, pourakarmikas Basappa Chandrapur and Durgavva Madar were felicitated.
