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A2Z to start collecting waste from November 7

Thursday, 07 November 2013 11:07 administrator
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The Times of India          07.11.2013

A2Z to start collecting waste from November 7

VARANASI: After a failed start to its waste operation across the city from November 1, the solid waste management firm, A2Z, will start its door-to-door collection of solid waste from Bhelupur ward on Thursday. Though the residents as well as their local representatives believe that it is too liitle a step towards a problem which has the city suffering from insanitation from a long time.

Confirming this, municipal commissioner Umakant Tripathi told TOI, "The firm will start its primary (collection from doorsteps) as well as secondary (from common places) collection of solid waste to be transported to their treatment plant at Karsada."

Recently the firm had submitted its action plan to mayor Ramgopal Mohale that mentioned that the firm will start collecting the waste from garbage collection centre (GCC) in Bhelupur ward from Thursday. Though the action plan did not mention the date from when the firm will start its door-to-door collection and transportation operation across the city.

Explaining the reason for missing out the November 1 deadline, director A2Z, BN Tiwari said, that the sanitation was not to be disturbed during the festivities. "Now that the festival is over, we will start collection of garbage from Bhelupur ward and will gradually expand the area of our operation," said the official.

The official also said that the firm cannot start the collection of garbage from all the wards on the scheduled date as recruitment of sanitation workers is still to be done. "We do not have enough manpower now and we are yet to get an electricity connection despite DM's order for the same a few weeks back. In fact, the main reason behind delay starting the collection of the garbage from the GCC is that there is a severe crisis of dumping space so we decided to first treat the garbage at the treatment plant to ease out the space problem," said Tiwari.

Though, the official admitted that the machines at the treatment plant are still not functional and are being repaired, yet he remained hopeful of starting the treatment work soon. Meanwhile, the city health officer BN Chaubey said that the road sweeping will still be done by the VMC employees apart from the solid waste management in the rest of the city.

 

Bulk waste generators to be surveyed

Thursday, 07 November 2013 10:31 administrator
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The New Indian Express          07.11.2013

Bulk waste generators to be surveyed

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will soon conduct a survey on garbage disposal by bulk generators.

According to BBMP Joint Commissioner (Health) Dr K T Yatish Kumar, they have classified 12 categories of bulk generators including State and Central government buildings, private companies, hotels, community halls, educational institutes, malls, paying guest accommodations, clubs and apartment complexes which produce more than 10 kg of waste every day.

Yatish said they have drafted a format for the survey which will be given to zonal commissioners, who will, in turn, have to make sure that junior officials get the survey done.

The format includes name and address of the bulk generators, contact person, quantity of waste (wet, dry and hazardous waste) produced, disposal system and other details.

“With this, we will not just get a clearer picture on waste generated by bulk generators, but also the disposal system. Bulk generators are told to dispose waste themselves. If we find that they are giving waste to BBMP pourakarmikas, we can take action against them,” he said.

Yatish also said if the BBMP tackles bulk generators, around 40 per cent of garbage produced in the city can be managed. “The survey is expected to be completed by December-end,” he said.

Hoteliers a Step Ahead

Some of the bulk generators are making their own arrangements to dispose waste. The Bruhat Bangalore Hoteliers’ Association (BBHA) has signed an MoU with Noble Exchange company which will convert waste to energy. There are around 5,000 hotels, including darshinis, which produce around 1,200 tonnes of waste every day.

Association president  Chandrashekar Hebbar said they have tied up with Noble Exchange which will take another year to start its plant at Kannahalli on Magadi Road. “Once they are operational, they will collect 90 paise per kg of wet waste and `1.25 per kg of dry waste from us. This will cost us more than what we give private contractors. At the end of the day, it is our city and we have to take responsibility,” Hebbar added.

 

Festive season: City collects additional 1,800 tonnes garbage

Thursday, 07 November 2013 07:30 administrator
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The Indian Express          07.11.2013

Festive season: City collects additional 1,800 tonnes garbage

Garbage 

Although Diwali generates good business but there is no option to recycle the plastic gift paper wrapped on almost every gift item. In name of celebrations, residents add additional pollution apart from air and noise.

This festive season, the city generated more than 1,800 tonnes additional garbage in a fortnight and on Diwali alone the additional garbage collection was of about 250 tonnes. The private garbage collection company A2Z authorities said that additional garbage was largely in form of plastic bags, packing papers, crackers' waste etc.

Pollution control board authorities said plastic packaging material cannot be recycled and at the moment it is just being dumped. During Diwali the dumping increases in huge quantity. However, A2Z company's vice-president BS Chauhan said, "Though a large amount of garbage was of packaging material only, but we give such material to our plastic vendors who use them in making plastic pipes. Government approved vendors are being given such waste." However, he admitted that most packaging papers cannot be recycled but this generates good business plastic pipe vendors.

So far the garbage collection company was not very clear as what is being done with the packaging paper, however, they said that before treating the garbage they do segregate such papers and give it to the concerned vendors.

Chauhan added that on an average Ludhiana generates about 1,050 tonnes of garbage but about a fortnight before Diwali garbage collection was ab­out 1,150 tonnes and a day after Diwali this increased to 1,350 tonnes. Garbage collected by the company is being taken at dump point on Tajpur Road.

 
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