The Hindu 18.11.2014
Segregation of waste at source begins
Inspired by the success of the Shunya Project in R.S.
Puram, residents of Bharathi Park led by the Bharathi Park Ladies
Association have begun segregating waste. On Monday they launched the
Shunya Project — zero waste management scheme where the waste is
segregated at source — in the presence of Mayor P. Rajkumar, who
promised the Coimbatore Corporation’s support.
The
association president Premi Balu said that the project would begin with
residents in the Bharathi Park Eighth and Seventh Cross and links roads
there — about 200 houses. Mr. Rajkumar said that the main culprit for
the poor waste management was plastics, which prevented decomposition of
organic waste.
He appreciated the steps taken in The Nilgiris, where plastics was banned.
R.
Raveendran of the Residents Awareness Association of Coimbatore said
that the organisation would join hands with Siruthuli to implement the
scheme across the city.
The residents would get bins
and bags for segregating waste. The ITC under its Wealth out of Waste
programme would collect the dry waste from the residents.
The
corporation had implemented the Shunya Project in R.S. Puram, where
door-to-door collection of segregated waste had led to the removal of
bins in the area.
