The Hindu 06.11.2014
MCC officials visit zero waste management units
R. Lingappa, Mayor, and M.K. Somashekar, MLA, visiting the zero waste
management unit at Kumbarkoppal in Mysuru on Thursday.— PHOTO: ANURAG
BASAVARAJ
The Mysore City Corporation (MCC) is planning to
activate the nine zero waste management units set up in different zones
of the city soon to reduce pressure on its existing garbage treatment
plant in Vidyaranyapuram here.
Mayor R. Lingappa, who
led a delegation of councillors and officials of MCC to various zero
waste management units here on Thursday as part of its initiative to
create awareness about segregation of waste, said he had convened a
meeting on Friday to discuss the modalities to start the units as soon
as possible.
Mr. Lingappa said the city generates
about 450 tonnes of waste every day and the existing garbage treatment
plant can process barely 200 tonnes. “If all nine units start
functioning, the pressure on the treatment plant at Vidyaranyapuram will
come down,” he said.
Also, he said he will discuss
the matter with councillors and officials to work out modalities for
treating the waste generated in each ward within the particular zone.
M.K.
Somashekar, Krishnaraja Assembly Constituency MLA, and D. Made Gowda,
former MLC, were also part of the delegation that visited the zero waste
management unit at Kumbarkoppal.
The unit collects
around three tonnes of waste everyday and generates a revenue of Rs.
15,000 to Rs. 20,000 a moth by selling the manure at Rs. 600 a tractor
load, said an MCC official.