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Mangalore: Compost Plant, Sanitary Landfill Site Handed over to MCC

  •   Tue, Jun 24 2008 01:56:10 PM

Raviprasad Kamila/The Hindu

  • Solid waste will be dumped and separated on basis of degradability
  • ‘Compost plant is undergoing trial run’
  • Glitches in its functioning have been noticed

Mangalore, Jun 24: The Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) has handed over the newly-built solid waste processing unit and a modern scientific sanitary landfill site developed by it at Pachchanady to the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC), according to sources in the MCC.

Solid waste (garbage) produced in the city would be dumped and separated as bio-degradable and non-degradable waste using a machine. The degradable waste will be converted into compost at the solid waste processing unit, also called the compost plant. Inert waste such as plastics, metals, glass pieces separated from the solid waste, will be transported to the scientific sanitary landfill site and dumped there, the sources told The Hindu.

The KUIDFC had built the two units for the corporation under the Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Coastal Environment Management Project (KUDCEMP), they added.

Premananda Shetty, Chairman, Standing Committee on Public Health, Education and Social Justice of the corporation, confirmed that the plant and site had been handed over to the civic body. The plant has also been connected with power supply.

However, a senior official at the MCC said it would take a week to complete some formalities before taking possession of the compost plant. The landfill site had been handed over, he said adding that the plant was on a trial run. “We have found some glitches during the trial run. They have to be rectified. Only then can we say that the plant has been handed over to the MCC. It will take a week to correct the glitches,” the official said.

Door-to-door collection

Mr. Shetty said that contractors were collecting solid waste from 60 wards and dumping it on a 23-acre open yard at Pachchanady. The door-to-door collection option was offered to contractors under nine packages. Although the contract expired on June 11, it was extended for two months.

“Door-to-door collection is not being undertaken at all wards. Hence, the corporation is considering handing over the entire task of solid waste management to a single contractor. But, a decision to this effect is yet to be taken,” the official said.

“If the task of solid waste management is handed over to a single contractor, the agency has to collect waste from each and every house or building, transport it to Pachchanady and operate and maintain the compost plant and sanitary landfill site,” he said.

A senior official of the corporation visited Nagpur recently to study how solid waste management was being undertaken there by a single agency under the door-to-door scheme. The corporation would take a decision on whether to implement the same model in Mangalore, Mr. Shetty said.

The official said that the corporation was following the controlled tipping method while dumping waste at Pachchanady.

Under this method, waste was being heaped onto a hillock at a convenient slope and capped with clay, soil and compost. The capping was being done whenever the height of the waste reached 12 metres, he added.

The compost plant has a separate vermi compost production unit, the official said.

  

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  • C.Ferrer, mangalore

    Tue, Jun 24 2008

    Congratulations on the completion of this project. Now what is the MCC going to do with all the organic manure that is produced- are they going to market it to the public or are they going to sell it to "friends" for a pittance and pocket the balance.

    Mr Commissioner I would suggest the following: 1.In order that the public will know that the plant is working properly, market the compost in 5/10/50 kgs bags that will have the date of packing/cost marked on them, so that any buyer will know when it was packed and can guage the quality of the compost. 2.Keep the price down to the bare minimum as organic manure is the need of the hour ( not petrochem fertiliser which is a slow killer). 3.Open many counters at every ward (maybe next to every bus terminus/major bus stops) or better still have the garbage collection contractor who is planned to go in his trucks all over the city take orders from the public for this manure during their rounds and deliver to them in the next two three days- receipts must be issued for all sales/ monies received. 4.Freely give this manure to all institutions like schools, colleges, technical institues, etc and request them to market the same- a small gesture in return for all the aid they get directly and indirectly. 5.The MCC must monthly issue a public notice of the quantity of compost manufactured/ the amount sold/ and the amount collected from the sale.

    The newspapers should be requested to publish this around the 10th of the month for the figures of the previous month. Or put it on the MCC website. ( if free compost has been given to any body or used by the MCC themselves this too must be accounted for. I for one will surely be a buyer of this vermi compost and am willing to get all my friends to support this venture to the maximum. BUT it must be TRANSPARENT. Good Luck Mr Commissioner and the Standing Committee going to look after this project

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