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Plan to Spruce up Collection of E-Waste, Plastic
A shift in focus has apparently
occurred regarding waste management - from stink and dirt to harmful and
perilous - courtesy the agencies making a beeline for the City Corporation to
collect plastic and electronic materials tossed out after use. Suchitwa Mission
has put forward a proposal to line up rag-pickers to collect plastic waste from
Corporation limits who would reach door-to-door in neat uniforms.
“The usual plastic waste collection
done by rag-pickers is undergoing a customisation. One of the major problems
they encounter is a means to transport the collected waste, for which we are in
talks with the City Corporation to provide an arrangement. Suchitwa Mission
would work as a coordinator to link them with vendors in Tamil Nadu to ferry
the collected materials away in bulk. They would be given uniforms and badges,”
said a Suchitwa Mission official. This proposal is under the City Corporation’s
consideration.
Kudumbashree Mission, which has
joined hands with a Bangalore-based firm to pilot a degradable waste collection
in the city, is going one more step ahead in collecting plastic and e-waste. It
made a presentation before the Corporation officials regarding the method
recently.
“The present clientele is just 250
houses and to get sufficient quantity, ie six tonnes of e-waste, the number
must cross 5,000. Or else, we might have to find a facility to store e-waste.
The collection part would be coordinated by us and the e-waste materials could
be handed over to a central government-approved agency. From the houses from
where we collect degradable waste, plastic is also taken now and sent for
recycling,” said an official of the Bangalore-based firm.
Clean Kerala Company Limited has
also prepared plans for handling plastic and e-waste in the 60 municipalities
and five Corporations across the state. Based on the project, the Public Works
Department has commenced road-tarring using shredded plastic in Thrikkakkara.
“Local bodies have been asked to
open centres for plastic/e-waste collection. The company’s role is to find a
buyer. Value-added and income generating methods are aimed at,” said Kabeer B
Haroon, managing director of Clean Kerala Company Limited.
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