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Court directive to set up centralised waste treatment plant for Ernakulam

Friday, 23 December 2011 08:06 administrator
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The Hindu       23.12.2011

Court directive to set up centralised waste treatment plant for Ernakulam

Special Correspondent

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Thursday directed the State government to take steps to set up a centralised waste treatment plant for the district.

The Bench comprising Justice C.N. Ramachandran Nair and Justice P.S.Gopinathan directed the State to file a report regarding the steps taken in one month.

The court also directed the municipalities in the district which did not have their own waste treatment plant to dump their wastes at Brahmapuram waste treatment plant.

The court issued the directives after taking into account the views of the Ernakulam District Collector, municipal chairpersons of 11 municipalities in the district, its secretaries and Kochi Corporation Mayor who were personally present before the court as per a court directive.

The Bench also directed the Kochi Corporation to take immediate steps to clean up the garbage heaped on the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant after segregating plastic.

Kochi Mayor Tony Chammany took strong objection to the proposal to allow all the municipalities in the district to dump waste at Brahmapuram.

He said that the Brahmapuram plant was set up exclusively for treating waste from the Kochi area.

In fact, there had already been protests against dumping of waste from the local residents at Brahmapuram. The dumping of waste from the neighbouring municipalities would further worsen the tense situation at Brahmapuram.

The court was of the view that the local body chiefs had submitted that effective steps should be taken to scientifically dispose the wastes generated in the district.

The chairpersons of Aluva and Eloor Municipalities said that that they had their own land for treatment of waste. However, the public was protesting against dumping of waste on the land.

The court opined that dumping of plastic waste should be stopped.

A centralised treatment system was needed in the district.

In fact, 100 acres could be allotted for establishing the project. The Bench was of the view that waste could be collected through the Kudumbasree unit.

The court observed that waste generated in each houses could be treated in their compounds itself.

The court directed the district collector to take steps to supply necessary gadgets and other facilities for treatment of wastes to all the houses.

 

Focus on solid waste management

Monday, 19 December 2011 11:02 administrator
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The Hindu           19.12.2011

Focus on solid waste management

Staff reporter

Management of slaughter house waste and other solid wastes are among the top projects that have a common thread among the people in the district.

According to the projects that have been sent to the district Health as part of the Comprehensive Health Plan under the 12 {+t} {+h} Five-Year Plan, a number of villages and towns in the district have taken it up as one of the leading health-hazard projects.

The State is yet to adopt a viable waste management system in spite of the fact that this has been one of key issues for which the government has provided budgetary support.

Among the other key projects is sewage management and mosquito eradication.

Some of the other key projects proposed by various panchayats and municipalities are for lifestyle disease management. Pain and palliative care, important for the terminally ill patients, should be made available locally. This is the concern of the people that has suggested the Health authorities to plan for such care for patients who need not be taken to far off places to relieve them of pain.

Various panchayats have also asked the Health authorities to come up with education and communication programmes with respect to a number of diseases on a regular basis. This request perhaps has been a result of the unchecked rise in water-borne diseases this year that resulted in a lot of morbidity.

All these projects are being consolidated by the district Health authorities and would be submitted to the State.

 

State in top position in solid waste management

Friday, 16 December 2011 09:39 administrator
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The Hindu          16.12.2011

State in top position in solid waste management

Staff Correspondent

Sadhan K. Ghosh, Chairman of Consultative Committee for Better Solid Waste Management in West Bengal, said on Thursday that the country was producing 50 million tonnes of solid waste every year.

Mr. Ghosh, who is also the coordinator at the Centre for Quality Management System, Jadhavpur University, told presspersons here that it was possible to generate 2,000 MW of power from this waste.

Udupi secured the first place among the towns having a population between one and three lakh in solid waste management in the country. Towns and cities had been divided into three categories with regard to solid waste management.

The three categories were towns with a population below one lakh, towns with a population between one and three lakh, and cities with a population above three lakh. Karnataka was in the top position in the country in solid waste management, he said.

An international conference on solid waste management would be held in Mysore on July 16, 2012. Representatives from 11 countries would participate in it, he said.

Nearly 800 delegates from the country and abroad would participate in the conference. As living standards of people were going up, solid waste generated was also increasing.

The aim of the international conference was to focus on reducing plastic waste every year and bringing it down to zero, Mr. Ghosh said.

 
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