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Soild Waste Management

• Solid Waste
• Best Practices
• Manpower
• Media And Communication
• Infrastructures Created
• Vehicle Monitoring Portal
• Kodungaiyur Dumping Yard Portal

Soid Waste Management Department:

Headed by a Superintendent Engineer the department looks after removal of solid waster which is a major responsibility of the Corporation. Everyday 3200 MT of garbage is collected and remove from the city. Night conservancy is being carried out in all important roads and commercial areas of the city. Door to door collection of garbage in all zones except zone VI, VIII & X have been introduced from May 2003. Recently the Corporation has initiated the project to process Municipal Solid Waste into composed by Mechanical composting.

Generation

Composition

Physical

Solid Waste

Primary Collection

• Fully with Manpower
• Operation in one stretch per day 6.30 am to 1.30 pm.
• Special Conservancy between 1.30 pm to 7.30 pm.

Each worker was assigned with work schedule

Implements Used

• Brooms
• Baskets (Bamboo and Aluminum)
• Brushes
• Iron Plate
• Containerised push carts
• Tricycles
• Roto mould wheeled bins

Activity

• Sweeping, collecting, storing in the specific bins.
• Door to door collection of garbage
• Collecting the Source Separated Waste from the House holds by Tricycles or Light Motor Vehicles for unloading in transfer stations.

Secondary Collection: (Transportation)

• Street to disposal site.
• Transportation to disposal site from transfer station.
• Route schedules for each and every vehicle for each trip.

No. of Trips

• Heavy Vehicles 2 trips per day.
• Light Vehicles 4 trips per day.

Transfer Stations

Waste Disposal
At present Open dumping & partly covering with debris. For improving the existing Landfill sites as Scientific Engineered Landfill M/s. National Productivity Council, New Delhi has been appointed as Consultant and the reports are expected soon.
Number of Disposal Sites : Two
Dumping Ground:
Kodungaiyur

Best Practices

Source Collection

Collection of Municipal Solid Waste at source(Door to door collection) has been implemented in all Zones except Zone VI,VIII & X from May 2003.About 95% of the households were covered under this programme.

This has been achieved only on introduction of Tricycles which stands as a wonder tool for better collection of MSW at door steps. Now about 1459 Tricycles are put in use. The Tricycles were purchased from Councilors fund and some donated by Welfare Associations etc. This has resulted in reduction of dust bins on road side.

Source Segregation

Source separation is promoted to reduce the waste coming to the Landfill, thereby increasing the life time of the Landfills.

• Source separated bio-degradable waste (Organic Waste) can also be home- composted and used.
• Source separated recyclables can be sent to recyclable units and only the inserts can be sent to landfills.

Media And Communication

Manpower

Infrastructures Created

• Construction of compound wall at Kodungaiyur landfill site has been completed at a cost of Rs. 44 Lakhs.
• WBM Roads has been completed at a cost of Rs.25 Lakhs at Kodungaiyur and Perungudi landfill sites
• Transfer station at Zone IX has been improved by providing concrete flooring and raising of compound wall at a cost of Rs.28 lakhs.
• Modernised Transfer station at Zone III is constructed at a cost of Rs. 2 Crores.
• Around 106 Compost bin structures have been constructed at various wards in various Zones to process the segregated organic waste.