The Hindu 21.01.2015
Thuraiyur municipality adopts new waste management system
It plans to set up a shed for segregation of garbage
Utilisation of a piece of private land has enabled efficient handling of
solid waste management at Thuraiyur.— Photo: A. Muralitharan
The Thuraiyur municipality has introduced solid waste
management programme for separating the degradable and non-degradable
waste. The municipality has adopted a multipronged approach for managing
the solid waste.
The municipality has cleared a huge
volume of garbage at its old dumping yard on Sorathur Road. “Excess
accumulation of garbage on the municipal site had resulted in various
public health-related issues, including pig menace and presence of
anti-social elements,” say municipal sources.
To tide
over the problem, the municipality has successfully persuaded the local
residents who owned a piece of land in the adjoining area. A large heap
of the garbage from the municipal site had been taken to this private
land.
“The shifting of a huge volume of garbage from
the municipal to the private land has eased the solid waste management
at this area,” say the sources.
The municipality has
planned to set up a segregation shed at the area for effective
management of the solid waste. Second, the municipality had introduced
door-to-door collection of garbage duly segregated at source in select
six wards in the municipality. “Bio-degradable and non-degradable waste
is collected after segregation at source,” the source said.
At present, the municipality handles 15 tonnes of garbage daily.
