CCP sources said Panaji generates 26 trucks of dry non-biodegradable waste.
Such waste is from households on Mondays and Thursdays on a weekly
basis. It comprises of all types of plastics, paper, metal, glass,
styrofoam, cloth, shoes, slippers, rexine among other materials. Further
sorting of this dry waste into different fractions when it is all
heaped together is a tedious, time consuming and labour intensive
exercise.

Aiming to solve the problem, the CCP decided to
introduce the 4-bin segregation of waste at source, into four categories
namely plastics, paper, metal or glass and non-recyclables.

This system was put in place since August, 2011, for all the hotels and
restaurants in the city and in around 60 housing colonies which has
since helped to effectively treat 13 out of the 26 truck loads of waste
generated weekly by the city.

The Miramar area generates four
truck loads of dry waste per week. The CCP in its phase-wise plan
proposes to start the 4-bin segregation and collection system in Miramar
from March 18.

Hundred B.Ed students from the Nirmala
institute of education, Altinho, who have been trained by the CCP’s
waste management cell, will be visiting each household in Miramar on the
March 11-12 to explain the modalities of segregating dry waste at
source and the collection mode to residents.

Those residents of
Panaji who live in areas that are not yet covered by the 4-bin
segregation system and who would voluntarily like to help, could deposit
their dry segregated waste into the ‘Recycling Station’ set up at the
dry waste sorting centre in St Inez, during working hours only.