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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Waste handling all set to go `colourful'

Dennis Marcus Mathew

Programme aims at reducing load on garbage dumps

HYDERABAD: From Tuesday, residences in the twin cities will have college students knocking on their door to brief housewives on handling garbage generated at home. Waste handling is also set to become a `colourful affair' with bright red and green bins to be used for segregation of dry and wet waste respectively.

The visits are part of a massive state-wide campaign by the National Green Corps (NGC), aimed at making urban residential areas across the State cleaner and reducing the load on municipal garbage dumps.

Phased launching

The campaign, according to NGC Andhra Pradesh director, W.G. Prasanna Kumar, will see NGC's Eco Club students from over 1,300 degree colleges being involved in introduction of the phased launching of house-level segregated collection of waste in areas covered by the 125 urban local bodies or municipalities in Andhra Pradesh.

The campaign will have students going door-to-door, educating the public on collecting waste in the colour bins. Talk shows, street plays and awareness programmes in public spots, residential areas and on campuses will be part of the campaign.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions of posters on environment conservation and awareness programmes on problems of drinking water, wastewater, solid waste, traffic and urban forestry will be held in 125 urban local bodies on June 5.

Segregation of waste at house level will help in proper implementation of compost and recycling facilities, which in turn will reduce load on garbage dumps apart from stopping burning of toxic material like plastic at dumps, says Prasanna Kumar said.

Twenty per cent of municipalities are already into segregation at source with Suryapet and Qutbullapur leading the way with 100 per cent implementation. The only waste that piles up at garbage dumps here are difficult waste like batteries, which are buried deep in landfills.

The introduction of complete source segregation of waste in all urban bodies by October-November this year is in compliance with Supreme Court directions, for which the Municipal Administration Department is taking NGC's help.

NGC is also preparing a report on situation of waste management, traffic, urban forestry, wastewater and drinking water in municipalities. The report is slated for a June 5 release.

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