While the presence of zero waste in the city is the vision for Kochi, the very first step involved in this is segregation of waste. District Collector M. Beena on Monday emphasised this important step while appealing to residents’ association representatives to adopt a waste management technique most suitable to them.
Waste management has to begin from each home and has to become a people’s movement to become a success, said Ms. Beena at a meeting of flat owners’ associations here on Monday. The laws suggest that waste clearing and management is the duty of the civic bodies but the involvement of the people in the process is of utmost important, she said.
About 250 workers are employed for rather inhuman work by the Corporation to segregate the waste thrown by the public. While gloves are provided to do the work, the workers find it cumbersome to untie the knots of plastic bags containing biodegradable waste.
“So, instead of blaming anybody for not doing their duty, we have to see what we have to do”, said Ms. Beena. The least that the people in the city can do is to segregate the waste generated in their homes.
In modern parlance, waste is wealth and there are a number of modern techniques which have been tested and proven, she said. The old Kerala society used to have wonderful waste management and cleanliness practices. Today’s society has to take lessons from the olden ways and move forward in tune with times, she said.
Clean Kochi project of the Kerala Builders’ Forum held a presentation of the waste management technology promoted by it.
The biobin techniques of creating manure out of kitchen waste is now being followed in 52 flats, said Kabeer B. Haroon, project director of Clean Kochi.
Some of the flat owners shared their experience in installing a waste management programme in their apartment complexes.
The attitude of the people towards managing waste was the biggest problem that the association representatives faced while implementing a programme.
An office-bearer of an apartment association had introduced the waste management practice in an educational institution successfully. The users of waste management techniques said that promoters of new technology should be ready to solve any problem arising from it.
*Courtesy: The Hindu
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Today morning I went along Asoka Road and found the heap of waste having been removed. But new carry bags with waste have appeared. No change in the waste dump of Puthiya Road and Chakkala Padam Road. Please prevail upon the corporation officials to remove the waste on day to day basis.
The efforts of the Dist.Collector to find alternative uses for the plastic waste are commendable. There was an attempt to rubberise roads. If the waste rubber can be put to use mixed with bitumin to surface the roads, thousands of useless tyres lying in various compounds can be put to use. Now they are the breeding ground of musquitoes. There may be some technology available to put the useless tyres to some alternative use. Kindly look into this. Road surfacing is a problem in Kerala and all the newly repaired roads have developed potholes even before the rains.
) Before I say anything, I congratulate the present team which brought Brahmapuram plant into fruition. Though I appreciate the devotion to duty of previous and present councillors of my ward, I do not like the protest their party made during inauguration. I raise my hats in honour of Mr. Thamby of Health office for his exemplary service.
2) There are some people like me who cannot afford payment to Kudumbashree. Please allow such people to hand in organic waste direct to a prescribed collection centre.
3) I noticed a man with shabby hair and very dark complexion collecting branches from an adjoining bush. Inquisitiveness provoked me to check what he was doing. He was planting the branches as warning of a hole he made in a slab in front of my house with some hammer that afternoon. The hole was made to get iron rod from broken slab. The pounding of slab could not be distinguished from the noise emanating from a nearby motor workshop. Flying plastic bags, paper bags and other materials get into the gutter through the whole. Please cover the hole with thick slab. The culprit gives the impression of a mad man who could harm people who approach him. Actually he is not mad. His black dress looks like that of a mechanic who never washed it for years.
4) The southern end of the canal which passes through the front side of Corporation Secretary's official quarters need cleaning. The shops over the canal have to co-operate. Also the pile of waste on one side of Sadanam Road in the compound where Canara Bank functions, has not been noticed by authority. The canals on the southern side of south over bridge as well as gutters leading to them are full of filth.
5) I have often felt that the best way of getting ideas for cleaning the city could be obtained if people of highest position could have a friendly chat with the staff who did the cleaning the city in the post as well as the present work force.
6) Sudden ban of 'Pettykkadas' from all the streets can invite protests and demonstrations. However one or two streets from each ward, if freed from them each year, would pave the way for cleaner city.
7) I do not have money for computer or internet. You can contact me on BSNL phone 2376108. INDUKUMAR of present ward 60 and previous wards 55 and 39.
Today I went along the Asoka Road anf found heaps of waste getting accumulated. Waste in beg cement bags and plastic bags are found. They cannot be transported either by hand or in a two wheeler. They must have been brought in a car or a truck. Some arrangement to catch them red handed and punish them are required. They do not seem to be just domestic waste. They may be waste from slaughter houses or hotels which on decomposition stink very badly. Please do something to get rid of this.
let us all do it. The houses at Vijayanagar in Vennala has been segregating waste into two, green buckets (Biodegradable)and the other for non-biodegradable, for a long time now.. If the entire family's of a residents association can do it thne why not the entire city? And no body litters by the road side there...
I hope the Mayor commends this little hamlet of a residential area!
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