The Hindu 26.11.2013
More Wards to come under zero waste management project
On Tuesday, the Coimbatore Corporation officials led by
Commissioner G. Latha will hold a meeting with Councillors Venthamarai
Balu (Ward 44), S.J. Ashok Kumar (Ward 51), M. Malarvizhi (Ward 67), and
S.K. Nijaam (Ward 98) to discuss ways to implement the zero waste
management project.
The discussion will be based on
the experience the civic body gained in implementing the project in
association with ICLEI, an NGO, Residents Awareness Association of
Coimbatore (RAAC), Siruthuli, ITC, and a few other organisations in Ward
23 (R.S. Puram).
The civic body and the
organisations created awareness among residents of Ward 23 on the need
to segregate waste into wet and dry, distributed bins and bags and then
taught the residents ways to segregate the waste.
The
ICLEI-funded scheme ‘Shunya — zero waste management project’ saw the
residents segregate waste, and the conservancy workers of the area sell
off the recyclable waste to the ITC.
R. Raveendran,
Honorary Secretary, RAAC, said that the workers had collected nearly
five tonnes plastic and of those one or two workers had done exceedingly
well in that they had earned hundreds by selling the waste to the ITC.
Now the corporation would be extending the project minus ICLEI support to the four Wards.
The
corporation had had a discussion with the assistant commissioners and
other officials of all the five Wards on Saturday last. It had decided
to meet the Councillors of the four Wards to enlist their support and
discuss modalities to extend the scheme, said Commissioner G. Latha.
By
this week, the corporation officials, Councillors and conservancy
workers would go campaigning door-to-door asking residents to segregate
waste. After they begin segregating the waste, the officials-workers
team would follow up to ensure that the residents segregated the right
way. If they failed to segregate the waste, the corporation would be
forced to serve notices on residents, said the Commissioner.
In
Ward 23, the corporation was in the process of talking to owners of
commercial establishments to follow the waste segregation system. It was
in the process of setting up the bio-gas plant to treat wet waste and
placing red bins to dump sanitary napkins and other wastes that did not
come under the wet and dry waste category.
