The Hindu 07.06.2013
Tonnes of plastic waste removed from Grand Anicut canal
In a massive cleaning operation, nearly 600 sanitary workers of municipality removed 10 tonnes of plastic waste from the Grand Anicut canal here on Thursday.
The waste was cleared from a stretch of one km from Irwin bridge on Gandhiji road to Moopanar road bridge in the canal. Savithiri Gopal, chairperson, Thanjavur municipal council, N. Ravichandran, municipal commissioner, and P.Sivanesan, municipal health officer, supervised the operation.
Later, Ms. Gopal told presspersons that the plastic waste collected from the canal would be made into bits and used for laying roads. She said that solid waste management is given thrust and house-to-house solid waste collection is done in many wards.
There are 100 push carts and 108 compost bins. Segregation of plastics from solid waste is done through private parties in Tiruchi and the same method would be followed here soon.
Mr. Ravichandran said that the cleaning aimed at environment protection. These plastics if not collected now would be washed by water and dumped in paddy fields.
A sum of Rs. 2 crore has been allotted for getting a huge compost vehicle that can press 16 tonnes of solid waste at a time. Already a vehicle that can press six tonnes of solid waste is in use in the town.
The collected plastic waste will be made into bits and used for laying roads.
