The City Corporation is planning to include more areas to pilot the installation of plastic shredding units in addition to the three that is under consideration.  Along with collecting plastic, e-waste are also included.

Officials of the City Corporation, Kudumbashree Mission and Suchitwa Mission will visit the spots identified for setting up the plastic shredding units in the city at Manacaud, Chalai and Palayam.

In the meeting held on Thursday, the areas that were given priority are Muttada, Kuravankonam and Kesavadasapuram, where Kudumbashree workers are now engaged in collecting plastic waste.

Meanwhile, the Corporation is looking for a common yard,  a primary resource recovery centre, to bring the collected plastic waste together to segregate and categorise it depending on its nature and separate metal and glass waste.

The centre would probably function as a place where the washing of plastic waste will be performed taking into account the difficulty of doing it in the ward levels. A site for this has to be identified and the Corporation  would advise the residents to provide the plastic waste washed if possible.

The segregated waste will be brought to the recycling centres. As per the plan, materials which have a resale value will be sold and the hazardous wastes are planned to be stored. It will be the Kudumbashree workers who will collect the plastic waste.