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Decentralised waste management should be the norm: Mayor

KOCHI: Mayor Mercy Williams on Wednesday called for a concerted effort on the part of all stakeholders for the success of the solid waste management programme.

Speaking after inaugurating a zonal workshop on solid waste management at Kakkanad near here, Ms. Williams said it was time that decentralised solid waste management, which had been on a perennially experimental phase, was made the norm.

The Socio Economic Unit Foundation (SEUF) organised the seminar in association with the Clean Kerala Mission and the World Bank-aided Water and Sanitation Programme – South Asia.

Ms. Williams said it was unfortunate to be forced to remind people of the plastic ban despite the gravity of the garbage problem faced by Kochi. She said that the arrival of a garbage-loaded ship on the shores of Kochi recently was testimonial to the fact that solid waste management was not an issue confined to the Kochi Corporation alone.

She said that there were certain factors that restrained the corporation from implementing a model solid waste management plan. With the 24-hour work culture people were left with little time to help the cause of waste management, she said.

Ms. Williams said that since the separate collection of biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste was posing great difficulties to the corporation, provisions had been made in the upcoming Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant for segregation. She said that under the present circumstances, further segregated collection of waste was not possible.

P.S. Shyla, district panchayat president, presided.

Sabitha Karim, Thrikkakkara Panchayat president, and K. Balachandra Kurup, executive director of the SEUF, spoke. Representatives of the local self-government bodies from Ernakulam and Idukki participated.

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