The City Corporation is planning to include more areas to pilot the
installation of plastic shredding units in addition to the three that is
under consideration. Along with collecting plastic, e-waste are also
included.
Officials of the City Corporation, Kudumbashree Mission
and Suchitwa Mission will visit the spots identified for setting up the
plastic shredding units in the city at Manacaud, Chalai and Palayam.
In
the meeting held on Thursday, the areas that were given priority are
Muttada, Kuravankonam and Kesavadasapuram, where Kudumbashree workers
are now engaged in collecting plastic waste.
Meanwhile, the
Corporation is looking for a common yard, a primary resource recovery
centre, to bring the collected plastic waste together to segregate and
categorise it depending on its nature and separate metal and glass
waste.
The centre would probably function as a place where the
washing of plastic waste will be performed taking into account the
difficulty of doing it in the ward levels. A site for this has to be
identified and the Corporation would advise the residents to provide
the plastic waste washed if possible.
The segregated waste will be
brought to the recycling centres. As per the plan, materials which have
a resale value will be sold and the hazardous wastes are planned to be
stored. It will be the Kudumbashree workers who will collect the plastic
waste.
