Now, corporation vehicle to force segregation of waste at source
TRICHY: Segregation of waste at source has been in practice for more than a year now in the city. But, a section of residents are still hesitant about segregating waste before handing it over to the sanitary workers resulting in the loss of resources to process waste. To tackle the situation, the civic body has planned to introduce a customised waste collection vehicle with separate compartments for bio-degradable and non-biodegradable waste.
As many as 170 mini-trucks have been in use to collect domestic as well as commercial waste across the 65 wards, and 3-4 sanitary workers on board were receiving both biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste in separate tubs. Besides using 3-4 sanitary workers for the task, the method is time consuming as it involves a second phase segregation once the collected waste reached the decentralised micro compost centres (MCC). To tackle the shortcoming, Trichy Corporation has modified a mini-truck on pilot-basis with separate containers for biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste. “As residents are not properly handing over waste in segregated manner, the coloured compartments on the deck of the mini-truck will promote awareness among residents to hand over waste separately as biodegradable and non-biodegradable,” a corporation official said. The mini-truck is also equipped with a speaker to alert residents on the arrival of the door-to-door waste collection vehicle.
The customised mini-truck will also cut-down 2-3 sanitary workers needed to separate waste as the compartments will do their role. One has to dump non-biodegradable wastes in blue container and degradable waste in the green compartment. “Based on the response, we will increase the number of such vehicles for door-to-door waste collection across all the four zones,” the official said. Waste would be collected compulsorily from residents in two bins, which would be dropped either by the residents themselves or by the sanitary workers in the respective compartments. The move is expected to save time of sanitary workers who had to segregate waste repeatedly across the 27 MCCs in the city.
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As many as 170 mini-trucks have been in use to collect domestic as well as commercial waste across the 65 wards, and 3-4 sanitary workers on board were receiving both biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste in separate tubs. Besides using 3-4 sanitary workers for the task, the method is time consuming as it involves a second phase segregation once the collected waste reached the decentralised micro compost centres (MCC). To tackle the shortcoming, Trichy Corporation has modified a mini-truck on pilot-basis with separate containers for biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste. “As residents are not properly handing over waste in segregated manner, the coloured compartments on the deck of the mini-truck will promote awareness among residents to hand over waste separately as biodegradable and non-biodegradable,” a corporation official said. The mini-truck is also equipped with a speaker to alert residents on the arrival of the door-to-door waste collection vehicle.
The customised mini-truck will also cut-down 2-3 sanitary workers needed to separate waste as the compartments will do their role. One has to dump non-biodegradable wastes in blue container and degradable waste in the green compartment. “Based on the response, we will increase the number of such vehicles for door-to-door waste collection across all the four zones,” the official said. Waste would be collected compulsorily from residents in two bins, which would be dropped either by the residents themselves or by the sanitary workers in the respective compartments. The move is expected to save time of sanitary workers who had to segregate waste repeatedly across the 27 MCCs in the city.
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