Wealth from waste, and it's green too
Tuesday, 19 October 2010 00:00
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The Times of India 19.10.2010
Wealth from waste, and it's green too
BANGALORE: Over 15,000 households and 180 institutions across Bangalore now segregate garbage at source. An estimated 320 tonnes are also recycled every month... Recycling paper alone has mitigated 4,633 tonnes of carbon dioxide emission, equivalent to planting 18,532 trees, and neutralized the negative impact of climate change on 2,895 average Indians.
This was some good news from the year-long Solid Waste Management Round Table (SWMRT) shared here on Tuesday. SWMRT had also commissioned climate change experts no2co2.in to calculate the annual amount of carbon dioxide emission prevented by recycling domestic waste.
Leading the success stories is Diamond District which now earns Rs 15,000 as average monthly income from recycling waste. About 900 households here regularly segregate wet and dry waste. Over 3.8 tonnes of dry waste is recycled here monthly.
Same with Platinum City where 700 apartment units now segregate waste and 20 of its residents spread awareness to all. The complex has been earning between Rs 10,000 and Rs 12,000 from dry waste over the past two months. Two streets in Sadashivanagar are also involved in dry waste collection.
"BBMP has allotted us four spaces where we collect dry waste. Over the past year, on an average, 320 tonnes of dry waste has been collected per month and recycled. This is just 10% of the city's garbage. We need to spread awareness," Dr Meenakshi Bharath told TOI. These statistics will also be shared with BBMP at SWMRT's second presentation at the Lok Adalat on October 23.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 11:22
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CM urged to scrap controversial compost yard
Monday, 18 October 2010 10:01
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The New Indian Express 18.10.2010
CM urged to scrap controversial compost yard CHENNAI: A member of a SC Committee on Solid Waste, Almitra Patel, has written to CM M Karunanidhi and Deputy CM M K Stalin asking them to intervene and protect the Chembarambakkam Lake from landfill pollution. According to Patel and a whole host of environmental experts, the lake would be under threat of severe pollution if the proposal to set up a compost yard in its catchment area was approved. In a copy of the letter made available to Express, Almitra Patel stated that the “proposed allotment of the site in Kuthambakkam for compost yard is against the guidelines for landfill siting given in the Municipal Solid Waste Rules 2000.”
“My visit to the spot showed that for 3-4 monsoon months in the year the groundwater level is so high in the area that nearby open wells are full till ground level and sometimes even overflow. The gravel-covered sheet erosion patches in the grazing ground indicate regular, extensive and forceful surface water flows over the entire site. These flow via a wetland below a bridge on NH 4 straight into nearby Chembarambakkam Lake which is a major water supply (source) for metropolitan Chennai,” she stated in her letter. “EU has banned below-ground landfills because of inevitable failure over time of their waterproof bottom liners. So any proposed landfill on such a high water table endangers groundwater and surrounding irrigation wells and is a certain recipe for a public-health disaster,” she added.
Patel also stated that the quantity of waste was grossly exaggerated perhaps to justify the need for more land. “27 tons a day from a 30,000 population of Valsaravakkam is 350 per cent more than the national average for small towns,” she said.
Citing the example of zero waste management at Suryapet in AP, Patel stated in the letter that she could volunteer to help municipalities manage their waste properly if the authorities were interested.
Last Updated on Monday, 18 October 2010 10:03
Villagers warn corporates of dumping garbage
Thursday, 14 October 2010 00:00
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The Times of India 14.10.2010
Villagers warn corporates of dumping garbage
DAVANAGERE: Villagers of Chikka Budihal near Davanagere took out a protest on Thursday and warned the Davanagere city corporation authorities against dumping garbage in their area.
Earlier, the villagers of Avaragolla had brought a stay from the local court against disposing municipal garbage in their village as it caused environmental hazards. Lately, the coporation authorities had started dumping garbage in Chikka Budihal without following any scientific methods.
Already, over 50 tractors full of garbage have been dumped near Chikka Budihal. Irani Chandru, Gowdru Rudrappa, Shekharappa R, Nagaraj, Shivanna, Sutthur Marulasiddappa, Basavaraj, Eshanna, Kotresh and Sthree Shakti members were present in the protest.
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