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Steps to free Tiruchi from garbage

By Our Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI, APRIL 22. The authorities have planned to acquire more pushcarts to strengthen its door-to-door collection and segregation of garbage at the source as part of its efforts to make Tiruchi a `zero garbage' city, the Corporation Commissioner, Anand Patil, said on Wednesday.

Releasing a report `Resources up in flames — the economic pitfalls of incineration versus zero waste approach in the global south,' prepared by Brenda Platt of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in Washington for the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), at a function organised by the Tiruchi District Exnora here, he said 550 push carts were in use for collection of garbage in select areas of the city.

Another 500 pushcarts would be acquired within a short period to step up the task of clearing the segregated garbage, he said adding that within three months, over 1,000 pushcarts would be in use in the city.

The use of pushcarts was the first step in the direction towards achieving the goal of zero garbage city, Mr. Patil said.

Admitting that the goal would not be an easy task, he said the plan would be carried out in a phased manner.

He called upon voluntary organisations such as the Exnora to assist the civic body in a big way in achieving this goal. The burning problem being faced today was the huge disposal of waste and its management.

The Corporation, he said, was working on segregation of garbage at the source level itself in the past few years. He also stressed the need to inculcate civic discipline among the school students.

G. Subramanian, president, District Exnora, said the organisation had joined hands with 109 individuals and groups from 43 countries across the world in releasing the GAIA report.

The District Exnora was motivating the residents to segregate garbage and creating awareness of this concept. It had identified eight places for implementing solid waste management programme.

Highlighting the gist of the GAIA report, the District Exnora, joint secretary, K.N. Venkatesan, said the report focussed on the problems posed by municipal solid waste incinerators while disposing garbage, especially in terms of the pollution caused to the environment, and laid emphasis on the need for exploring alternative methods of solid waste management.

The director, Gramalaya, Damodaran, received the first copy of the report. The District Exnora secretary C. Balasubramanian spoke.

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