The Hindu 15.07.2013
New technologies needed to treat waste: Bangalore Mayor
Inaugurates workshop on waste management in Hubli
Underscoring the need for active cooperation of people
in effective solid waste management, Bangalore Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy
has said there was a need for alternative technologies to treat solid
waste.
Speaking after inaugurating a workshop on
‘Waste Management and Best Out of Waste’ organised by the Institute of
Business Management and Research (IBMR) here on Saturday, Mr. Murthy
said the waste disposal methods being undertaken in Bangalore should be
adopted across the State.
Underscoring the need for
segregation of bio-degradable and non-degradable waste at the point of
generation, Mr. Murthy said it was important that people separate waste
and put them into separate bags at their houses.
Disposal
Elaborating
on the garbage disposal issue Bangalore faced a few months ago, the
Bangalore Mayor said garbage clearance had become a problem for the
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike because of the inclusion of many town
panchayats and municipal councils under the BBMP without undertaking
any planned measures.
He said the farmers of villages
surrounding Bangalore, who earlier used garbage as manure for their
farmlands, had stopped doing so due to the presence of plastic in
garbage.
Mr. Murthy said Bangalore alone generated
5,000 tonnes of solid waste everyday and BBMP had initiated steps to get
the waste processed through scientific methods so as to produce crude
oil, biomethane and vermicompost.
Director of Kousali
Institute of Management Studies under Karnatak University, A.H.
Chachadi said there was a need to look at waste as a resource, as
several useful products could be made out of it.
The
former mayor of Hubli-Dharwad, Pandurang Patil, said there was a need to
adopt technology to mechanically segregate waste at the dumping yard
and to treat it on the day of generation.
Karnatak
University Registrar G.B. Nandan, chairman of IBMR Group of Institutions
Vinaychandra Mahendrakar, dean Rajendra Malowade and others were
present.
On the occasion, pourakarmikas Basappa Chandrapur and Durgavva Madar were felicitated.