Selling dry waste for recycling to be carried out by GCC soon
Posted on: 18/Nov/2019 9:49:13 AM
Greater Chennai Corporation or GCC has been doing many things now for its revenue.
The initiative of segregating waste at source was started by GCC is well known. It is now said that GCC has got plans to sell dry waste for recycling to earn some revenue. End users of different kinds of wastes like construction, textile and garden would soon be identified by the GCC and the waste would be sold through portal.
Micro-composting pits are run by the corporation and around 500 tonnes of wet waste goes to these micro-composting pits, converted to manures and sold to the residents.
The source belonging to GCC mentioned that something similar with dry waste is being planned now. The important piece of information is data regarding different types of dry waste available at the zonal level on daily basis would be shared with everyone. By this, it would be possible for the people to buy the dry waste. For sending the materials to the buyers, officials are also planning about a transport mechanism.
To identify the contractors who could pulverise garden waste, GCC would come out with tenders soon. The civic body would then sell the pulverised garden waste to the traders for making handicrafts and other items. It must be noted that every day 100 tonnes of garden waste is generated and is dumped inside parks or n the side of the roads. To make use of the thermocol waste, some traders have been identified by the corporation. For the purpose of recycling waste cloth, the civic body is in talks with some textile traders also.
The sensational information is in Chennai city every day more than 200 metric tonnes of cloth waste is generated. It was pointed out that old clothes could be used to make low quality mats and rugs. There would be brain storming sessions carried out by GCC with the citizen groups and residents welfare associations also.
Important information is for C& D (construction and demolition) waste processing, imported machinery is being procured by the corporation. In the future, 2 recycling units would come up at places like Kodungaiyur and Perungudi and the entire construction waste would be sent to these unit and the construction wastes would be available for sale.
An official belonging to Solid Waste Management or SWM spoke about how the machines would also be able to segregate the components from the construction debris and how the recycled material could be used for construction.
