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Source : The Hindu Date : 08.06.2009

Corporation to have model wards for waste management

Special Correspondent

— Photo: S. Siva Saravanan

FOR CLEAN CITY: Mayor R. Venkatachalam (second left) and Deputy Mayor N. Karthik (second right) display stickers with guidelines on segregation of waste, launched on World Environment Day in the Coimbatore Corporation on Saturday.

COIMBATORE: Out of the 72 wards in the city, the Coimbatore Corporation will have nine as model wards for segregation of waste, as part of the Rs. 96-crore Integrated Solid Waste Management Programme to be implemented under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra said at the launch of a handbill on segregation on Saturday to mark the World Environment Day.

People in these wards will be educated on how to store biodegradable waste and non-biodegradable in separate bins (green for biodegradable and white for non-biodegradable).

The Corporation has brought out a sticker-type handbill containing the types of waste that should be stored in these bins. The handbill has pictorial guidelines; it has images of food waste over a picture of a green bin and batteries, bottles and bulbs over the white bin.

The image of Walt Disney character, Mickey Mouse, stands with a green hat near the green bin and with a white hat near the white bin. People would be asked to stick the handbill on the doors of their kitchen. The handbill was released by Mayor R. Venkatachalam on World Environment Day (Saturday). Deputy Mayor N. Karthik and Corporation officials were present at the launch.

Official sources in the Corporation said the Corporation would form ward committees to take the message of segregation to the people.

Each committee would be headed by the councillor of the respective ward. Sensitisation meetings for the councillors and the public would also be held.

The civic body was of the view that the solid waste management programme would not be successful without segregation of waste at source because different models of disposal would have to be adopted for biodegradable and non-biodegradable garbage.

At present, the lack of segregation was one of the major impediments to safe and complete disposal of waste. The Corporation had already provided bins to many areas and the process would continue.

Segregation was the vital foundation to waste management. Only if waste was segregated at the homes, the purpose of door-to-door collection or primary collection would be served.

Source : The Hindu Date : 08.06.2009

Corporation to have model wards in the city

Special Correspondent

— Photo: S. Siva Saravanan

FOR CLEAN CITY: Mayor R. Venkatachalam (second left) and Deputy Mayor N. Karthik (second right) display stickers with guidelines on segregation of waste, launched on World Environment Day in the Coimbatore Corporation on Saturday.

COIMBATORE: Out of the 72 wards in the city, the Coimbatore Corporation will have nine as model wards for segregation of waste, as part of the Rs. 96-crore Integrated Solid Waste Management Programme to be implemented under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra said at the launch of a handbill on segregation on Saturday to mark the World Environment Day.

People in these wards will be educated on how to store biodegradable waste and non-biodegradable in separate bins (green for biodegradable and white for non-biodegradable).

The Corporation has brought out a sticker-type handbill containing the types of waste that should be stored in these bins. The handbill has pictorial guidelines; it has images of food waste over a picture of a green bin and batteries, bottles and bulbs over the white bin.

The image of Walt Disney character, Mickey Mouse, stands with a green hat near the green bin and with a white hat near the white bin. People would be asked to stick the handbill on the doors of their kitchen. The handbill was released by Mayor R. Venkatachalam on World Environment Day (Saturday). Deputy Mayor N. Karthik and Corporation officials were present at the launch.

Official sources in the Corporation said the Corporation would form ward committees to take the message of segregation to the people.

Each committee would be headed by the councillor of the respective ward. Sensitisation meetings for the councillors and the public would also be held.

The civic body was of the view that the solid waste management programme would not be successful without segregation of waste at source because different models of disposal would have to be adopted for biodegradable and non-biodegradable garbage.

At present, the lack of segregation was one of the major impediments to safe and complete disposal of waste. The Corporation had already provided bins to many areas and the process would continue.

Segregation was the vital foundation to waste management. Only if waste was segregated at the homes, the purpose of door-to-door collection or primary collection would be served. These had a bearing on the rest of the process such as secondary collection (from ramps to the compost yard) and disposal through composting and land filling. Biodegradable waste could be converted into manure through composting and non-biodegradable waste had to be disposed of through land filling.