Students sensitised to solid waste management

AIMED at educating school students on the importance of day-to-day waste collection to keep the city dean, city-based welfare organisation and the urban civic body have launched sensitisation drive across the schools to promote awareness on solid waste management. As part of the interactive initiative, schools would be provided with model dustbins for the purpose of students segregating their biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes on school premises which would go for re-cycling. This would give them a practical idea about waste management, better than textbooks. The initiative being jointly conducted by Tiruchy Corporation and Mission Green Tiruchy, a voluntary organisation run by professionals from various walks of life have been covering school students studying in classes VI and above. With about 3,500 st-dents covered under the theme

Members of Mission Green Tiruchy and Corporation officials sensitising students to solid waste management practice I EXPRESS
"My City, My Duty", a power-point presentation would be screened for the children emphasising the need for dumping the regular waste in a segregated manner such as kitchen and food waste to be dropped in green col-our bin whereas other non-bio-degradable wastes in blue colour
bin. As a part of the awareness, several schools were provided with the model bins, and a soft copy explaining the need for the segregated waste collection and this would be displayed in every classromm. "Even if parents and adults in
Number of corporation schools Ariyamangalam zone: 14 K Abishekapuram: 15 Golden Rock: 11 Srirangam: 21
Non-biodegradable waste collected under new plan June 1st week 12.79 tonnes June 2nd week 46.16 tonnes June 3rd week 59.96 tonnes
Source: Tiruchy Corporation
the house were reluctant in segregating waste before handing over to the sanitary workers if the school children are aware of the protocols, they would influence their parents on the proper way of disposing of waste. Since the non-biodegradable waste can be recycled, wealth generated through the waste was highlight-
ed among children to promote awareness." Dr K Narasimha Rao, co-founder of Mission Green Tiruchy told Express. Besides the theoretical sensitisation, students would also be taken for a field visit to the biogas plants and compost yards to comprehend the process of reusing the routine domestic waste. Since cleanliness on school cam-pus would be ensured through such awareness drive including in Corporation-run schools which envisage placing separate bins in corridors and displaying wall posters, the voluntary organisation has plans for recognising the cleanest schools in every four zones of the city corporation by March 2018. teaching out to the children is reaching out to the families. As awareness is need of the hour for corporation and government schools in city limits, we also have plans for providing model bins for the government schools here to promote citizen partici-pation." Narasimha Rao added.
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