The Hindu 06.06.2012
Waste collection: buckets to be distributed in Alappuzha
A meeting of the Municipality council here decided to
launch projects to collect segregated waste from households under its
jurisdiction.
The meeting held here on Tuesday to
find an urgent solution to the vexing waste problem decided to
distribute buckets to families in 10 wards in the municipality to
segregate bio-degradable and plastic wastes as part of processing these
wastes. A total of Rs 32 lakh will be earmarked for distributing buckets
from the waste processing fund of the municipality. Many who spoke at
the meeting pointed out that the problem with waste processing in the
town was the mixing of bio-degradable waste and plastic waste. The
distribution of separate buckets for these wastes is expected to solve
this problem of mixing of wastes.
An all-party team
of councillors will be sent to study the waste processing plant of
Kottayam municipality. The team will also visit Thiruvananthapuram to
seek help from Chief Minister Ooomen Chandy and other Ministers.
The
meeting also decided to further strengthen the existing ban on plastic
in the municipal area. Demands were raised at the meeting that punitive
action should be taken against those who work against the plastic ban.
Bio-gas plants will be set up in hotels in the town. The meeting also
decided to cancel the licenses of those hotels which do not set up the
plant.
Councillors, Prem, Ramesh, Althaf and
V.G.Vishnu of the LDF and Illikkal Kunjumon, A.A.Rasaq, Sunil George,
O.K.Shafeeq, Raju Thanickal, M.M.Sherif, Basheer Koyaparambil from the
UDF were among those who spoke at the meeting.
A total of Rs 32 lakh will be earmarked for distributing buckets.
