Chennai: Waste Management

[anekho]

Guys, starting this thread to track all info and discussions on waste management in Chennai. An area that need some serious work!

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Segregate plastic waste and get paid

CHENNAI: Soon , there will be 50 centres in the city where plastic waste segregated by residents will be collected, a high-level meeting chaired by environment minister B V Ramanaa at the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) headquarters on Monday decided. The waste will then be sold to plastic manufacturers for recycling and the residents paid .

Identification of locations for the project , to be launched across 10 cities in the state , has begun . The project is to be run according to the Union ministry of environment and forests' Plastic Waste Management Rule 2011.

The respective corporations , a senior TNPCB official said , would be responsible for waste collection and disposal . "We are coordinating with plastic manufacturers in the state to buy the segregated waste . It is expected to work as a business model too, as the people segregating and collecting the waste will be paid for that ," he said .

TNPCB member-secretary K Karthikeyan said about 1,700 plastic manufacturing industries in the state will be roped in . "The centres will collect segregated waste for recycling . The segregation methods are being finalized and there are plans to distribute waste bins at the street level to ensure source segregation . Local bodies can also take help from ragpickers ," he said .

He added that the main advantage of collecting plastic waste would be relaying roads . "Jambulingam Street near Valluvar Kottam is an example of a road laid with a mixture of plastic waste . It is said to be more durable ," he said .

All corporations in the state have been advised to implementthesystem immediately . "TNPCB will work as an advisory body for the corporations ," Karthikeyan said adding that Pune had successfully implemented that system . "Pune successfully generates 10MW of power from 700tonnesof municipal solid waste at a plant situated 100km from the city . Local bodies interested in making use of such technologies can come up with proposals ," he said .

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50 TN centres to segregate plastic

Fifty plastic segregation centres will be set up in Tamil Nadu for better management of solid waste, state environment minister B.V. Ramanna said on Monday.

Speaking at the review meeting on solid waste management in city corporations in the state, he said plastic wastes would be collected and segregated in these centres and converted into pellets. The pellets would then be sold in the open market based on demand.

During the discussion, Tamil Nadu pollution control board (TNPCB) authorities said the life expectancy of Perungudi and Kodungaiyur dumpyards was nearing the end. Year 2015 is the deadline to close the two dumpyards used for the last 25 years.

Over 2,000 tonnes of wastes are dumped in each site every day. We are running out of time to dispose of the garbage in these landfills, TNPCB member-secretary Karthikeyan said.

The officials said the project on generation of power using the hundreds of tonnes of garbage at Kodungaiyur and Perungudi, on Chennai’s outskirts, should be started immediately. “A case filed by activists against the landfills with the national green tribunal at Delhi should be withdrawn to start the power project,” they said. The minister said the activists could be called for a meeting.

Environment and forest department secretary C.V. Shankar lauded the efforts of Coimbatore, Madurai and Salem corporations in effectively implementing waste management programmes.

“Awareness among the public, particularly schoolchildren, is necessary to make our cities clean and green,” he added. When students understand the importance of a clean city, they would be conscious about waste generation and disposal.

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Chennai Corporation to power up waste utilisation

The Chennai Corporation proposes to produce power from waste at its Perungudi and Kodungaiyur dump yards. Besides power generation, organic compost and refuse-derived fuel would also be made.

Addressing a workshop on municipal solid waste organised here on Monday by Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Environment Minister B.V. Ramana said that the civic body would soon invite expression of interest for the project at Kodungaiyur.

Through such projects, the government intends to reduce the load of the dump yards, particularly the one in Perungudi, which is on the Pallikaranai marsh.

It would also be a scientific method of removing the accumulated waste and hence limit the land filling to minimum, the Minister said.

Similar projects would also be considered for other municipal solid waste dump yards across the State, he added.

Mr.Ramana said that Coimbatore and Salem Municipal Corporations had been able to implement solid waste processing facilities. The Chennai Corporation had, however, not been able to process the collected waste.

TNPCB Member Secretary K. Karthikeyan said that there were technologies to produce power from unsegregated waste. “In Pune, they are producing one MW of power from 70 tonnes, which means there is a possibility of producing 21 MW each in Perungudi and Kodungaiyur dump yards. The million tonnes of garbage could be biomined and over a period of time there would be no waste in the yards,” he added.

Environment Secretary C.V.Shankar said that the city will soon get 50 plastic collection centres at a cost of Rs.8 lakh each. He said local bodies could give some kind of incentive to residents to segregate garbage at home.
Protestors arrested

Over 50 persons, including Perambur MLA A. Soundararajan, who participated in a protest in Ezhil Nagar on Monday demanding relocation of the Kodungaiyur dumping ward, were arrested.

Police said the group, including residents of the area, said that the dumping yard was affecting their living conditions.

They were arrested after they tried to sit on a fast. The protesters were released in the evening, police added.

Traffic in the area was thrown hit for over an hour due to the agitation.

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[kannan infratech]

Thread Name Changed to Chennai Waste Management.

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Hyderabad firm to clear city waste

With vacancies at the Chennai Corporation going unfilled and Neel Metal Fanalca wrapping of its garbage collection process, Chennai continues to stink.

After a long bureaucratic procedure and litigations, the Chennai Corporation has now awarded the work order to Hyderabad-based Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd for taking up the waste management in few pockets of Chennai where Neel Metal Fanalca is operating.

However, the firm will not handle waste management in areas that have been recently annexed to the city corporation and the civic body is now deploying staff to these areas to improve the situation.

Members of residents’ welfare associations meanwhile say that the garbage situation has gone from bad to worse. “The private firm Onyx, which cleared garbage from 1999 to 2007 did some justice, but the roads have been stinking since then,” said Mr Arani Sreenivasan, a civic activist.

According to confidential Ripon Building sources, the new firm will begin its transition from January 1 and will take over a few wards from Pongal. The firm is expected to stabilise its operations by March.
The corporation will also procure a fleet of bulldozers, earthmovers, and dust collectors.

The state government had already sanctioned a grant of Rs 50 crore to improve the waste management in Chennai.

A pilot programme initiated in ward-141 for door-to-door collection of garbage will be examined and the possibilities of collecting garbage without bins will be expanded to three more wards.

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Pan-India meet of civic bodies in city

CHENNAI: Representatives of civic bodies from across the country are set to descend on the city soon. At the 10 edition of 'Municipalika,' to be organized by Good Governance India Foundation (GGIF) at the Chennai Trade Centre. From January 23 to 25, they will discuss ways of dealing with problems related to urban infrastructure, e-governance and waste management.

While many civic bodies have already begun preparations to showcase their achievements, the Greater Chennai corporation is yet. "We have not received any instructions from higher officials to prepare for the event," said a corporation official.

The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), which claims to be the first in the country to generate electricity from sewage gas emanating from the Sewage Treatment,is said to be in the final stages of preparations to showcase its achievements in the field of energy conservation and energy efficiency.

Municipalika focuses on municipal and local governance and will be attended by mayors, municipal commissioners and urban development officials of central andstate governments from all over the country. "Foreign experts are also expected," said GGIF executive director G Ibrahim. "We are expecting full participation of the Chennai Corporation," he said.

Union urban development minister Kamal Nath welcomed the GGIF's move to conduct the conference, Ibrahim said.

At the ninth edition held in Bangalore, around 1,200 delegates,including mayors, municipal commissioners, urban planners, policy makers and members of residents' associations from across the country, participated.

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Dump plastics in bin to win gold

There is divine gold for garbage. The Thiruvannamalai district administration has decided to gift gold and silver coins every month to pilgrims who dispose of plastic waste in garbage bins during the girivalam at the world-famous Arunachal eswarar temple.

The devotees will be given tokens when they drop their plastics and other garbage in the wayside bins and the winners will be decided by a draw.

During the recent Mahadeepam, which drew nearly two million people to the holy shrine, 144 devotees won silver and eight got gold coins. District collector Anshul Mishra told DC that the campaign sank deep into public mind as he found several thousands of pilgrims picking up plastic bottles from the roads and dropping them in the garbage bins for collecting the lottery tokens.

“Looking at this huge success at the Mahadeepam, we decided to extend this lucky draw campaign to all the pournami (full moon) poojas, when at least two lakh pilgrims converge at the shrine. We hope they will carry back a lasting message on environment protection from this divine trip”, he said.

Puducherry’s R. Kalaivani was one such lucky winner of a one-gram gold coin on Mahadeepam. “I was thrilled when my name was called on the loudspeaker as a winner. I have now decided never to leave plastic on the roads and to deposit it only in the bins”, said the 32-year-old house maker.

Thiruvannamalai environment engineer Charles said over 200 volunteers were involved to empty the garbage bins during Mahadeepam. “The response to the campaign was so overwhelming that I saw a man ask for a gift token for his plastic bottle while his son sought a token for the bottle’s cap”, he said.

The state plastic manufacturers’ association has agreed to take the plastics from these bins for recycling.

“We will be paying for the plastics. We are happy to be associated with this divine project to keep Thiruvannamalai clean. We saw even kids picking up waste to throw into the bins”, said G. Sankaran of the association.

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Interesting solution. Two mangoes with one stone?

[kannan infratech]

TN e Waste Policy Draft:

http://www.tn.gov.in/gosdb/gorders/it/it_e_18_2010.pdf

[vinodgopal]

its better to also ban plastic. Prevention is better than cure nu engayo padicha madhiri enakku nyabagam []

[kannan infratech]

Originally Posted by vinodgopal

its better to also ban plastic. Prevention is better than cure nu engayo padicha madhiri enakku nyabagam []

If you prevent plastic & rubber usage, population explosion may happen

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[Mad 4 Madras]

Gopala kalaikanum na naatamaye kalathula erangidraru pa. <sarojadevi>En gopal en ipdi?</sarojadevi>

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Originally Posted by Mad 4 Madras

<sarojadevi>En gopal en ipdi?</sarojadevi>

[vinodgopal]

Originally Posted by kannan infratech

If you prevent plastic & rubber usage, population explosion may happen

plastic ban panina plastic explosives panna mudiyathu adhunaala population explosion aagadhey. ashtha lakkadi gumma hi ashtha lakkadi gumma

[murlee]

Govt plans crude oil from plastic
City’s 300 Tonnes Of Waste A day Could Yield 3 Lakh Litres Of Oil

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has recommended that the state government set up polymer energy plants to produce crude oil from plastic waste at the Kodungaiyur and Perungudi dumping yards. Everyday Greater Chennai produces 300 tonnes of plastic waste, which would yield 300,000 litres of crude oil, but it may not be immediately viable to set up plants to utilise the entire plastic waste.

The Bangalore Municipal Corporation has implemented a similar project. The PCB’s idea came from the experience of a private company called MK Aromatics which has been producing crude oil from plastic waste at its plant in Alathur on Old Mahabalipuram Road. A PCB team recently visited the plant and decided to replicate it at the government dump yards, said PCB member secretary K Karthikeyan. He added that the PCB had decided to buy diesel produced from this crude oil at the Alathur plant to encourage the venture.

M K Aromatics director Mahesh Merchant said the plant used about 10 tonnes of plastic per day to produce 10,000 litres of crude oil. “There is very little pollution since plastic is not burnt,” he said. “The plastic is turned into a molten state using a catalyst and vapourised before being converted to oil. The process is easy as it doesn’t need segregation or washing. We also have distilling facilities to make diesel from crude,” A plant of 10-tonne capacity costs Rs 10 crore.

However, one major problem for the civic authorities is segregation of garbage. Despite repeated attempts at implementing source segregation by distributing colour-coded waste bins to households, source segregation remains adifficult task. To promote segregation of plastic from other waste, PCB has offered to buy plastic from households. For this, the government plans to set up 50 garbage collection centres across the city, each at a cost of Rs 8 lakh. The government has also okayed use of plastic in laying of roads.

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Originally Posted by murlee

Govt plans crude oil from plastic
City’s 300 Tonnes Of Waste A day Could Yield 3 Lakh Litres Of Oil



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"kuppail irunthu minsaram yeduppom" appo " kuppaiyilirunthu yennai yeduppom" ithu ippo.

Ithukkelam muthalle kuppaye yedukka solunga, sar.

[kannan infratech]

Originally Posted by ppn123

"kuppail irunthu minsaram yeduppom" appo " kuppaiyilirunthu yennai yeduppom" ithu ippo.

Ithukkelam muthalle kuppaye yedukka solunga, sar.

For the past few weeks, Corp workers come only once a week to every locality to clear garbage.


Ramki may start only from April 2012.

Till then we are in trouble. If it rains, added trouble.

Our street corners turned so filthy and we have engaged Narikorava people to clear in Meen Body Vandi every day.

But they say that the collecting yard is more filthy and garbage piled up so high. No space to dispose the new garbage collected.

[N.kumar]

Hyderabad, Dec. 16:
Come January 1, 2012, parts of Chennai City will have a new waste management project, to make its environs that much cleaner.

Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd. will handle 1,500 tonnes of waste per day. It will procure and deploy a fleet of 1,500 tricycles, 3,000 compactor bins, 3 mechanical sweeping machines and 70 new compactors as well as adequate dumper vehicles to do the job.

The Hyderabad-based company has bagged a contract worth Rs 560 crore from the Corporation of Chennai. The project involves collection, segregation and transportation of the waste. It will be implemented in three new zones (9, 10 and 13) of the Corporation.

The project will be implemented through a special purpose vehicle and the gross revenue is expected to be around Rs. 80 crore per annum amounting to Rs. 560 crore over the duration of the contract.

The project was bagged by Ramky Enviro, part of the Rs 6000 crore Ramky Group, against stiff International competition and multinational companies in the tender process.

The work of collection and transportation will start in a phased manner in the New Year and aims to achieve a clean and hygienic environment in the 3 zones of Corporation of Chennai, a company release said.

Ramky Enviro has been implement waste management projects, especially municipal solid waste, hazardous materials, recyling in different parts of the country as well as abroad. The Company has 26 subsidiaries and 85 facilities in nearly 50 locations across India, South East Asia, Vietnam, Middle East and Africa.