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Plan to make Kannur a garbage-free town, says municipal chairperson

Saturday, 14 December 2013 06:35 administrator
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The Hindu                14.12.2013

Plan to make Kannur a garbage-free town, says municipal chairperson

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Kannur Municipal Chairperson Roshni Khalid has said the municipality will launch a comprehensive garbage disposal programme on the Republic Day to make Kannur town a model garbage-free municipality.

Announcing this at a press conference here on Friday, Ms. Khalid said the programme would be implemented in two phases.

In the first phase, Kannur would be declared a town free of plastic carry bags.

A committee comprising representatives of political parties, traders’ organisations, residents’ associations and managements of hotels and hospitals had been formed to ensure the success of the programme.

Assurance

Ms. Khalid said that the traders’ representatives had assured that they would not use plastic carry bags of less than 40 micron thickness.

The programme was being implemented jointly by the municipality and the Kerala Initiative to Save Agriculture and Nature (KISAN).

Delegation for Malaysia

The municipal chairperson also said she was part of a delegation leaving for Malaysia to study septage management.

She is among the four members of the delegation from the State.

The others are Kozhikode Mayor A.K. Premajam, Kalamassery municipal chairman Jamal Manakkadan, and government’s technical committee member T.C. Supran.

 

New waste plant in a year, says Minister

Friday, 13 December 2013 05:34 administrator
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The Hindu            13.12.2013

New waste plant in a year, says Minister

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A new solid waste treatment plant would be commissioned at Brahmapuram before December next, according to Manjalamkuzhi Ali, Minister for Urban Affairs.

Talking to mediapersons after visiting the existing plant, Mr. Ali said that KITCO had been asked to complete the tender formalities for the new plant before March.

Though the paper works for setting up the new plant were completed earlier, it had to be dropped as the technology suggested for the plant was not accepted, Mr. Ali said.

The plastic refuse processed at the plant would be used for laying roads across the State.

Plastic shredding units would be opened in all local bodies.

Mayor Tony Chammany; Deputy Mayor B. Bhadra; Health Standing Committee Chairman T.K. Ashraf; and Clean Kerala Company manager Kabeer B. Haroon; accompanied the Minister.

 

Plastic collection centres for municipality

Friday, 13 December 2013 05:19 administrator
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The Hindu            13.12.2013

Plastic collection centres for municipality

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‘Susthira’ by Kannur civic body, KISAN

The Kannur municipality will set up plastic collection centres in a bid to implement a practical project to battle the menace of plastic carry bags in the town.

This was announced at a meeting of representatives of residents’ associations, traders’ bodies, and managements of private hospitals and wedding halls in the municipal area, held at the municipal council hall here, on Thursday. The project christened ‘Susthira’ is being initiated jointly by the municipality and the Kerala Initiative to Save Agriculture and Nature (KISAN).

Municipal chairperson, who chaired the meeting, said that the project to make the town plastic-free was conceived as a practical solution as no earlier efforts to ban plastic carry bags had succeeded.

Municipal vice-chairman and chairman of KISAN T.O. Mohanan said the declaration of the project would be held on January 26 next year. Waste plastic carry bags would be collected once or twice a week by the collection centres being started by KISAN. The municipality is also planning a plastic recycling centre in association with KISAN, he added. The volume of plastic waste generated in the town was huge, he said.

 
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