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Plastic shredding units at more areas planned

Friday, 25 October 2013 08:19 administrator
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The New Indian Express            25.10.2013

Plastic shredding units at more areas planned

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.

 

City Corp to arrange washing facility too

Thursday, 24 October 2013 00:00 administrator
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The New Indian Express            24.10.2013

City Corp to arrange washing facility too

The city is not short of plastic waste and, every day, its quantity is increasing to be on par with the stinking degradable waste generation.

Searching for solutions to the plastic menace, the City Corporation has now realised that tackling the materials alone is not the biggest headache.

Hence, when it is now going ahead with installing three plastic-shredding units on a pilot basis at Manacaud, Chalai and Palayam, the Corporation is arranging facilities to wash the collected plastic waste and engage the Kudumbashree workers in performing both tasks.

Even if the earlier attempts of the civic body to collect plastic waste from households were not fruitful, the reluctance of city residents to provide washed plastic waste was one factor that contributed to the failures.

Along with giving the order for the shredding machines, the Corporation has decided that at all three locations, water tanks and facilities for washing will be arranged. Corporation officials say that these facilities will be a solution to the issue of washing plastic collected from wayside too.

The installation of the shredding unit is a joint venture involving the City Corporation, Kudumbashree Mission, Suchitwa Mission and Agriculture Department. As per the current plan, the shredded waste will go to Public Works Department (PWD).

“PWD will use it for road-tarring works. Some industries too have expressed interest in the shredded plastic,” said K B Valsalakumari, executive director of Kudumbashree Mission.

After holding discussions, a detailed plan for setting up the units will be prepared.

In the two places other than Palayam, arrangements to house the machines would be made.

Future of existing machines uncertain

With Palayam again getting plastic-shredding units, in all probability, it would sound the death knell for the two machines which have been lying idle there from July 2012, since their inauguration in Connemara market.

When the kind of shredders that are to be bought for the new units would be for industrial purpose, the capacity of the two existing machines raises a question. As they have been lying idle for over a year, it is unclear how efficient they would be. The machines bought during the tenure of the previous council had cost Rs 2.70 lakh.

 

RMC board okays alternate arrangement for garbage collection

Tuesday, 22 October 2013 07:11 administrator
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The Pioneer             22.10.2013

RMC board okays alternate arrangement for garbage collection

The solid waste management firm A2Z seems to have got another lease of life after the board of Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) failed to evolve consensus on the fate of the firm which has been at the centre of the storm for its failure to keep the city free of garbage.

Instead, the board has now decided to partner the firm in putting up an alternate arrangement before calling the agreement off. Interestingly, the board which had given three months time to the firm in its last meeting has now decided to form a sanitation committee in all wards and to work together with the A2Z in as many as 11 wards on pilot mode for garbage lifting. Under the arrangement a ward councilor will be bestowed with the authority of hiring rickshaw pullers to collect garbage, like the employees of the A2Z, which will be equivalent to the gap in the manpower of A2Z for a particular ward.

“The additional manpower will collect the fee for lifting garbage and that will be their salary. We will fix accountability on them also,” said Deputy Mayor Sanjeev Vijay Vargiya. The experiment if succeeds will be implemented in another 25 wards and depending on the success will be introduced in all wards thus further weakening the case of A2Z which claims to be doing more with limited resources.

“That way we will put up an alternate arrangement before taking a final call on A2Z” said Vargiya. Interestingly, the RMC expressed its helplessness on terminating the contract of the waste management firm.

“Several important events are round the corner besides the festival of Diwali and Chhath. So we cannot terminate their contract at the moment,” said Chief Executive Officer of RMC, Deepankar Panda.

 
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