The Hindu          22.12.2014 

‘Zero waste management centres should solve garbage crisis’

The main reason for withdrawing garbage containers is to induce people to segregate garbage into wet waste and dry waste and hand it over to garbage collecting personnel accordingly. Earlier, residents would dump unsegregated garbage in containers and sometimes all around it, irrespective of whether the container was filled or not.

Shopkeepers complain

There are many other reasons for withdrawing containers. People, particularly shopkeepers, quarrel with the Corporation staff over the placing of the containers. At many places, including Bengaluru and Mysuru, people had brought pressure on civic bodies to shift the containers.

Shopkeepers felt that placing garbage containers near their shop would discourage customers from coming into their shops. Certain corporations and town municipalities have no definite period of clearing garbage from containers, result in overflowing garbage in containers. C.G. Betsurmath, Commissioner of Mysore City Corporation, told The Hindu here today that the corporation had set up nine zero-waste management centres and of them eight have already been functioning in the city. The nine centres would cover almost entire city.

If needed, the corporation would set up few more such centres, he said, adding that there would be no need to place garbage containers in streets and residential areas once these centres are up and running.