The Hindu 08.10.2013
Corporation to invite expression of interest
Coimbatore Corporation will soon initiate steps to gather and manage household hazardous waste and electronic waste. The move comes two years after the corporation made the first attempt.
According to Corporation Commissioner G. Latha, the civic body would soon call for expression of interest from private agencies to collect the wastes and dispose of the same according to the E-waste Policy of Tamil Nadu, 2010.
The agency would collect the waste from households, commercial establishments, industries and big companies, recycle the waste that could be recycled and safely dispose of the rest. It would collect the waste either once a month or periodically at any interval.
The corporation on its part would support the project but not have financial commitments.
Ms. Latha said that the project was at a preliminary stage, the finer details would be known only after the civic body selected a contractor and only then the things would be clear.
The corporation in 2011 said that according to the e-waste policy, it would collect and safely dispose of the waste under the public-private partnership mode.
It had planned to set up collection centres in all zones and engage workers to collect waste on a particular day of every week.
It had planned to dispose of the waste by handing it over to registered recyclers. And in doing so the corporation planned to take the advice of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board.
After making the announcement, the corporation did nothing much. The result was that hazardous household waste and electronic waste found their way into the municipal waste, thereby affecting the segregation and composting process.
