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Solid Waste Management

Mangalore DC wants to set up recycling centre

Tuesday, 12 October 2010 06:26 administrator
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The Deccan Chronicle  12.10.2010

Mangalore DC wants to set up recycling centre

Oct. 11: If Mangalore deputy commissioner V Ponnuraj has his way the city corporation could set up a recycling centre for plastics and glass discarded as rubbish. Mr Ponnuraj, who has come up with the idea, explains that recycling of such waste can help both the authorities and the people keep the city clean. Buying the recyclable scrap from Mangaloreans could make them more environment conscious in the process, in his view.

“The city corporation could set up the recycling centre and invite people to bring whatever plastic and glass products they want to throw away, and buy them as scrap,” Mr Ponnuraj says. The staff at the recycling centre could buy the plastic and glass by weight and then sell them to scrap dealers, he points out.

“But this is only a suggestion, it is upto the corporation to implement,” the DC adds. He is, however, obviously keen on the idea because he feels that if this practice is started it will help in solid waste management as people will then segregate their waste at home to sell the plastic and glass to the recyclable centre.

“ We could start with glass and plastics and then depending on the response extend the scheme to other materials,” he suggests.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 06:28
 

Court issues stay on dump site

Sunday, 10 October 2010 00:00 administrator
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The Times of India                   10.10.2010 

Court issues stay on dump site

DAVANAGERE: Davanagere civil court issued a stay order on the city corporation to stop dumping solid waste at a site near Avaragolla village on the outskirts of Davangere, following a suite filed by a team of villagers.

At a press conference, K C Kumaraswamy of Avaragolla said that the corporation had been dumping its solid waste in the area without adopting any kind of scientific and systematic method of disposal and treatment, as per the plan of action declared before the authorities concerned. The corporation failed to convert the waste into methane gas or biofuel and it was simply left to decay, causing a threat to the environment and public health, Kumaraswamy said.

The foul smell and unhygenic conditions led to school authorities being unable to prepare midday meals (bisi oota) as the garbage attracted flies, he said. Questioning such a practice by the corporation, 18 members of the village filed a suit in the civil court of Davangere.
Last Updated on Monday, 11 October 2010 10:23
 

Collector asks municipalities to do away with community dustbins

Thursday, 07 October 2010 10:50 administrator
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The Hindu  07.10.2010

Collector asks municipalities to do away with community dustbins

Staff Reporter

Guntur: Municipalities in the district should be free of community dustbins by January 31, 2011, district Collector B. Ramanjaneyulu said on Wednesday. At a meting of Special Officers and Municipal Commissioners of 11 municipalities convened by the Regional Director of Municipal Administration Karuna Chandra Babu, the Collector stressed on augmenting the door-to-door collection of solid waste in municipalities. 

The meeting discussed sanitation, supply of drinking water and revenue collection.

Municipalities should strictly adhere to two-bin collection in which the solid waste is segregated at source into bio-degradable, non-bio degradable and inert waste. In places where the tri-cycles failed, the municipalities could outsource solid waste collection to autos, he said.

Each automan could be given a task of covering 800-1,000 households per day and segregated solid waste could be recycled.

Mr. Babu said that community dustbins should be done away with and replaced with hanging dustbins kept at important junctions. The process could be taken up in a phased manner in all the municipalities, he said.

Scientific disposal

Scientific disposal of solid waste had been gaining ground and more municipalities started adhering to Municipal Solid Waste Management & Handling Rules Act formulated by the Central Government in 2000, he said. The Collector also suggested that municipalities may emulate Tenali, which bagged the national prize in sanitation. The municipalities should gear up for fresh outbreak of seasonal fevers and should undertake intensive fogging, spraying and dropping oil balls in drains to effectively destroy mosquito larvae, he said.

Joint Collector and in-charge Commissioner of Guntur Municipal Corporation A. Sarath said that all Commissioners should take up morning visits regularly.

A pin-point action plan should be made converging different aspects of sanitation, he said. Mr. Sarath also said that the revenue collection would be augmented in Guntur with an upward revision of 20 per cent in property tax collection.

Last Updated on Thursday, 07 October 2010 10:51
 
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