To promote zero-waste management, individuals, NGOs, resident welfare association members and experts gathered on Sunday to discuss new measures. The organizer was Eco Manage Group. The zero-waste management project initiatited in Vellore segregates organic waste into 22 categories; food waste into 8 categories; inorganic waste 33 categories, bottles 122 and non-recyclable into 10 categories.
Some of the other benefits of solid waste management is increase in job opportunities, environmental protection and economic growth. For achieving zero-garbage concept, there is a need for proper coordination between the district administration, local bodies, health department, pollution control board and public.
Participants, in fact, discussed working with the BBMP to segregate waste at the source itself and setting up collection and sorting stations in every 1 sqkm area. Environmentalist Almitra Patel said she’d filed PIL for hygienic solid waste management in 2000, realizing that cities in India had nowhere to dump waste. The result: the ministry of environment and forest issued draft guidelines to manage solid waste.She stressed on the need to adopt zero-garbage concepts to reduce waste going to landfills.
After the success of the pilot zero-garbage zone project, the BBMP will now target ‘segregation at source’ for domestic waste. The only solution to increasing garbage is source segregation.
Very soon there will be strict rule and you will have to do it mandatorily. Palike may fine offenders. The rule is simple. All dry and wet waste need to be dumped in separate bags and handed over to the garbage collectors.
Dry waste will be sent to designated landfills, wet waste will be taken to local compost pits that are being identified. These will be set up on unused public land like corporation schools and playgrounds.
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