Chennai: Waste Management

[ramvaradan]

Originally Posted by metalfan

Who is going to tackle the problem of public urination and defecation on the streets of Chennai... folks need to develop a sense of hygiene first. I have traveled to many countries but I am always embarrassed taking my kids out for a walk in Madras as we invariably see multiple folks relieving themselves in public.

- K

my thoughts as well. we need to stop being spectators and start being in the helm of things .. it does'nt mean that we should change our profession. but just give some portion of our spare time. part enforcement, part grass-roots, part self-ethics. no silver bullet here. but something along the lines of "ugly indian" kind of initiative, should be a good start.

pavements, sidewalks are good start because they are the basics and most of the times they are accomplish-able simple things, such as setting the slab right, cleaning the debris.. and we can always choose the path of least resistance until we gain steam.

happy boghi everyone!!

[anekho]

Even I've been thinking of doing something on the lines of 'The Ugly Indian' in Chennai. Why don't we SSCians start something? We all care for our city, let's take it one step further!

[anekho]

Garbage raises a stink

Residents of north Chennai, who recently observed Kuppai Pongal in the midst of garbage mounds, and the CPI(M), plan to launch a series of agitations against Chennai corporation, irked by indiscriminate dumping of garbage at Kodungaiyur.

The civic body has been dumping about 2,000 tonnes of non-segregated waste in the dumping yard every day, posing health hazards for local residents.

There is no respite for the local residents despite petitions, lamented the MLA of Perambur Assembly constituency, A. Soundararajan, who is a resident of the area.

Three weeks ago, the issue was taken up with Chennai mayor Saidai Duraisamy and top officials of the corporation. However, it is yet to be addressed.

Even as the people are worried about the situation, the coporation is adding to the agony by diverting additional loads of garbage from Ambattur and adjoining areas, he said.

After a human chain protest, the residents of the area plan to stage several more agitations over the next few days, the MLA said, adding that the corporation is insensitive to the woes of the people.

“Residents welfare associations from Vyasarpadi, Kodungaiyur, Kannadasan Nagar are gearing up for a human chain and the agitations will be intense,” an autorickshaw driver, Mari Muthu, of Kodungaiyur said.

“The dumping yard at Kodungaiyur has created severe health-related problems for the local people and the shifting of the yard was a long-pending demand,” said former Opposition floor leader Saidai Ravi. A ban on plastic in Chennai would help the city to breathe easier, he added.

Chennai now generates close to 5,000 tonnes of solid waste every day and the garbage is just dumped in two corporation dump yards — at Pallikaranai marsh and Kodungaiyur.

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[bonoslack7]

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle2809839.ece

The Chennai Municipal Solid Waste Pvt. Ltd., the special purpose vehicle created by Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd, will expand its conservancy operations to three more wards in Teynampet zone on Wednesday. The wards are 119, 120 and 121.

On Thursday, work in wards 114, 115 and 116 would begin.

The conservancy workers would begin work at 6 a.m. in the wards.

A total of 760 bins, 260 conservancy workers, 200 tricycles and six compactors would be deployed for conservancy operations in the six wards. On Thursday, the company started operations in five wards in the Teynampet zone. The company has planned to extend its services to the remaining two zones of Kodambakkam and Adyar, for which it has got contract, by January 30.

Night conservancy operations would also begin in 75 more roads as part of the work. The roads include Marina Beach Road and Service Road, Luz Church Road and Kutcheri Road.

The company has already started night conservancy on roads such as Kamarajar Salai and Dr.Radhakrishnan Salai.

The Chennai Corporation is planning to begin awareness campaign among residents of the wards where conservancy workers would start collecting garbage at their doorstep.

“Many of the residents continue to throw garbage on the roads. When our workers go to their homes, they ask them to come later. We are requesting them to give the garbage to the workers, who come in tricycles at the stipulated time,” said an official of Chennai Municipal Solid Waste Pvt. Ltd.

[Leo_r]

In our area, Neelmetal took back their garbage bins a week ago. Now people are forced to dump on the roads.

Hope there will be no more heavy rains,otherwise all garbage will reach drains and block it for ever.

Replacement bins are yet to be arranged by Ramki.. going back,back very fast.

[murlee]

Conservancy firm to launch door-to-door awareness drive

If you are a resident of Teynampet, Kodambakkam or Adyar, do not be surprised to have conservancy workers knocking on your doors on Thursday, not just to collect garbage but to have a chat with you.

Ramky Enviro, which has taken up conservancy works in these zones, has decided to get their employees to explain their garbage clearing operation to every household.

"We are going to tell them the time of collection and the importance of source segregation. If they can't be at home, they just need to segregate their garbage into recyclable, bio-degradable and non-degradable waste and keep them outside," said Rammohan Rao, national head for Ramky.

The Hyderabad-based agency, which bagged the Rs 7-crore contract for seven years, has set up an awareness team. The project will be taken up in three phases.

It is not just talking that Ramky is planning. The team will coordinate with residents' welfare associations and senior citizens to organise public performances in neighbourhoods.

"The team will be looking at demonstrations, marches and street plays to highlight the advantages of waste segregation and recycling. Our people will also try approaching school children to volunteer for the awareness campaign," said Rao. They believe that school children can play a big role in educating their families at home and improving the society's attitude towards garbage clearance and littering.

The public awareness campaign, beginning on Thursday is expected to go on for six months. "The initiative is not a one-day affair. It will take us months to get in touch with people and spread the message," said Rao.

The final phase of the campaign will include reaching out to people through mass media. "We will come out with big advertisements in leading newspapers, announcement in city radio stations and scrolls in television channels. We believe this will convince the public and make them cooperate with us to keep the city clean," said a Ramky official.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...w/11546833.cms

[anekho]

Corporation goes all out to rid the mess

CHENNAI: If you were someone who took a walk on the Marina on Wednesday morning, you might doubt if it was the day after Kaanum Pongal. For, unlike previous years, when there would be as much garbage as there was sand, the Corporation had got its act together in cleaning up the beach, with tractors and cleaning machines deployed very early in the morning.

Officials said that over 120 conservancy staff were deployed at the beach as early as 5 am to start the cleaning up process. Two mechanical cleaners and one crane were brought in to clear the collected waste. The waste mainly consisted of food packets that were left behind by revellers on Tuesday. However, one thing that was evident was the amount of plastic waste that was strewn around. This was despite the fact that there was a standing ban on carrying or distributing plastic bags in the Marina.

While one set of workers cleaned up the stretch between Gandhi Statue and Kannagi Statue in the morning, a second round of cleaning was started by 2pm. But the stretch between Kannagi statue and Labour statue continued to have a fair bit of garbage even after 2pm. Officials said that for the amount of waste that was generated on Tuesday, it was “unreasonable” to except a spic-and-span Marina within a few hours. They said that apart from their own staff, members of the Vendors’ Association were also involved in the clean- up process.

Vendors, on the other hand, said that much of the work could have been reduced had the agencies provided enough bins on Tuesday. “The bins were grossly inadequate compared to the crowd that poured in on Tuesday,” they said.

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[anekho]

Corporation removes 100 tonnes extra trash

CHENNAI: The City Corporation authorities have removed more than 100 tonnes of extra garbage accumulated during the Pongal holidays, especially on Kaanum Pongal Day. According to official sources, during the last three days, approximately 62 tonnes of garbage was removed from Elliot’s Beach, Besant Nagar, while about 48 tonnes of waste was cleared from Marina beach area.

It may be noted that the civic body removes about 10 tonnes of garbage from these areas on other days. While the figure was 250 tonnes last year, the amount of garbage collected has considerably reduced to about 100 tonnes during the 2012 Pongal holidays. In 2010, the civic body collected about 100 tonnes of garbage during the same period.

To overcome the criticism of being lethargic in removing trash after Pongal holidays in the previous years, the civic body, this year, swiftly deployed its men and machinery at those areas - beaches and important parks in the city, and cleared more than 50 per cent of the garbage before dawn. “Given Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s standing instruction to keep the Corporation area clean of garbage, we deployed more men and machines this Pongal season and made the difference at these spots,” said an official.

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[anekho]

Massive clean-up post Kaanum Pongal

CHENNAI: At a time when the Chennai Corporation is trying to get its act right with garbage collection and disposal, Kaanum Pongal was always expected to be a challenge. Crowds that throng the beach during this festival tend to leave behind huge piles of garbage that usually take days to be cleaned up. But the Corportion seems to have gotten things under control this year around.

Corporation officials were on the move from the early hours of Wednesday, overseeing the clean-up operations of the beaches and the roads leading to them, along the Besant Nagar, Thiruvanmiyur and Kottivakkam stretch.

“There is a lot less garbage this year than we expected. Over the past few years, we have seen Kaanum Pongal crowds shifting from Marina Beach to beaches along the city’s southern reaches. But even by the standards of the crowds this year, the garbage is low,” said a Corporation official.

By noon, the roads along the beach looked cleaner than they have been in months. But while the Thiruvanmiyur beach had been picked clean of all the wrappers and waste thrown by the Kaanum Pongal revellers, Besant Nagar was a mess.

Ice cream wrappers and other sundry garbage constituted a large part of the waste left behind after Pongal rites. Rag pickers were seen sifting through the garbage in the sands, bagging whatever recyclable material they were able to find. In fact, the Elliot’s Beach was still littered with garbage washed ashore by cyclone Thane. This mess, combined with the massive amounts of Kaanum Pongal wastes made the beach a truly hideous sight. Corporation officials said they were working all out to clear the garbage and that they would need time to clear such a large area. Only then, they said, they would be able to turn their attention to garbage along the inner roads in the area.

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[lexraja]

Originally Posted by anekho

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I am happy that Corporation has got the waste collection under control. I hope they start to recycle/dispose it effectively too rather than dumping it in Kodungayur or other dumping grounds in the suburbs which would only add to the woes of the residents who live near by . Doe any one know how Ramki Enviro plans to dispose off the garbage collected from the various zones/wards ?

[murlee]

What do they do to the Garbage in the Developed countries?? Is Everything recycled ??

[dkravind]

Originally Posted by murlee

What do they do to the Garbage in the Developed countries?? Is Everything recycled ??

In UAE (particularly in Dubai city) , this garbage is collected everyday at around 9PM and it goeson even after midnight.... The large garbage thottis are placed in large numbers at each and every street (eg . In a small residential street thery may be around 6 to 10 large garbage thottis will be there) this process is mostly done thru advanced machines with less manual intervention ....
Some garbage which can be recycled should be put in a separate thotti which is having the name "recycled waste"

In airports we should really appreciate how they maintain the cleanliness....in such a large airport like Dubai international airport which has 270 departure gates and 3 international terminals ....the airport is spic and span and clean without any smell 24 hours a day .....most of the workers who clean r indians only ....truly appreciated....

[murlee]

What do they do with the collected waste?? Dump it in landfills or use it for some other purposes??

[anekho]

Mission Clean City begins

Chennai mayor Saidai S. Duraisamy on Thursday flagged of a campaign vehicle aimed at spreading awareness among public on disposing waste and segregating bio degradable and non bio- degradable garbage.

The campaign vehicle will accommodate artistes who will play short skits and sing folk songs to lay stress on clean environment and effective waste management in Greater Chennai.

Slogans on waste management, effects on garbage stagnation and pollution free environment will also be raised by the group.

Corporation sources said the move besides creating awareness would involve public in helping the corporation to make the city clean and tidy.

Top officials of the city corporation including commissioner P.W.C. Davidar also witnessed a stage show performed by the staff of Ramky group.

Ramky has bagged the contract for clearing garbage in Teynampet, Kodambakkam and Adyar zones, in south Chennai, and is being paid about Rs 1,500 per tonne of waste collected in the city.

The corporation officials have also started fresh discussions on the much-delayed and awaited zero waste management centres proposed in Kodungaiyur and Pallikaranai dumping yards maintained by the civic body.

Meanwhile, the corporation also intensified its drive against the pilling up garbage in the wake of three-day Pongal celebrations in the city.

An additional of waste of over 500 tonnes was littered during Pongal holidays in prominent public places like Marina, trade fair and children’s park.

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[anekho]

Clean city campaign to reach out to residents

Chennai Municipal Solid Waste Pvt. Ltd., a Special Purpose Vehicle owned by Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd, on Thursday began a campaign to create awareness of keeping the city clean among five lakh families.

Mayor Saidai S. Duraisamy launched the campaign at Ripon Building.

Employees of the company would explain their garbage clearing operation to every household in the zones of Teynampet, Kodambakkam and Adyar.

They would coordinate with residents' welfare associations to organise public performances in all localities. The first phase of the awareness campaign would be completed in 12 days.

Later, the campaign would be modified to tackle the emerging challenges to garbage after all wards are covered by this month-end.

Streetplays would also form part of the campaign in 47 wards.

Residents would be encouraged to tell the problems pertaining to conservancy operations to the employees of the conservancy operator. “Garbage clearance will be better if residents cooperate. The employees will inform them the time of collection and the importance of source segregation. Residents would be requested to segregate garbage into recyclable, bio-degradable and non-degradable waste,” said an official of Chennai Municipal Solid Waste Pvt. Ltd.

The conservancy operator would also focus on schoolchildren as part of the awareness campaign.

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[kannan infratech]

Most of the cities use Solid waste as landfill only.

But there is a huge difference.

Imagine Perungudi Dump Yard - This is Indian style.

Pallikkaranai marsh is being filled. Garbage is burnt. Urchins / children are allowed to collect valuable from waste.

Mumbai reclaimed land from sea - Backbay Reclamation, Nariman Point are the proofs.

But India is better than developed countries in automobile waste management. We have Pudupet, Moore Market Chor Bazzars in all states.

Waste Management becomes an issue only when they run out of dump yards or people protest.

[arun82]

Originally Posted by kannan infratech

Most of the cities use Solid waste as landfill only.

But there is a huge difference.

Imagine Perungudi Dump Yard - This is Indian style.

Pallikkaranai marsh is being filled. Garbage is burnt. Urchins / children are allowed to collect valuable from waste.

Mumbai reclaimed land from sea - Backbay Reclamation, Nariman Point are the proofs.

But India is better than developed countries in automobile waste management. We have Pudupet, Moore Market Chor Bazzars in all states.

Waste Management becomes an issue only when they run out of dump yards or people protest.

If we remove Plastic from Indian waste rest will not be not be a issue. Unlike the west which has excessive packing India's will mostly organic in nature.

If they use the plastic for making railway sleepers and Electric posts it can be two mangos with one stone.

The waste plastic is used effiectly and will be more durable than concrete ones.

The use of natural resources like blue metal, sand and cement will be reduced.

Consider replacing all Iron and cement electric post with plastic posts in TN. The amount of plastic waste reduced and natural resources saved will be humungous.

[arun82]

“Waste-to-energy units are flops''

Chennai Corporation must adopt a decentralised approach to manage the solid waste generated in the city instead of setting up facilities to produce power from waste in Kodungaiyur and Perungudi, environmentalists said here on Friday.

Addressing presspersons, environmentalist Nityanand Jayaraman said such centralised composting projects in other cities, including Hyderabad and Delhi, have failed. The civic body must cancel the resolution adopted at its council meeting two months ago as the technology has not been successful in other cities.

Environmentalists cited the risk of air pollution from emission from the waste-to-energy plants, exorbitant cost of pollution prevention equipment and high cost for power generation as reasons for failure of projects.

While Shibu K.Nair of Thanal, a non-governmental organisation in Kerala, highlighted the failure of similar projects in Thiruvananthapuram and Bangalore, Joan Marc Simon of Zero Waste Europe, a coalition of various organisations, who through video-conferencing, spoke about many cities turning towards recycling of waste. Many waste-to-energy plants are being closed in countries such as Germany and the Netherlands.

Nalini Sekhar, national co-ordinator of Alliance of Indian Waste-pickers, highlighted the successful model of integrating rag pickers into solid waste management in Pune. Nearly 3,000 people were involved in collecting, segregating waste at zonal level and reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill. Representatives of Ever Vigilant Residents Welfare Association and Kaviarasu Kannadasan Nagar Welfare Association wanted the dumping yard at Kodungaiyur to be shifted. P.Nagarathna, a resident of Kodungaiyur, said that human chain would be organised on Monday in protest against the project.

Environmentalists said Chennai could come out with a proposal to ban non-biodegradable packaging materials such as thermocol. They also plan to submit a representation to the Chennai Corporation soon.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle2817999.ece

[kannan infratech]

In Alwarpet Mylapore areas, I observed that Ramky has placed new green bins along the streets, but in very less numbers.

The collection man came a few days back and instructed that people who live in flats should keep bins near the gate. They should leave segregated waste in the bins only and not in the bins on the streets.

But we are Indians and segregation practice seems to have died even before it was born. I noticed today that the cart man was struggling to segregate biodegradable from others. It took lots of his time and his supervisor was scolding him for slow work.

We are waiting for Ramky to start in Adyar - maybe by month end only.

We in our Adyar KB Nagar locality have given two different colour bags to keep waste - one is biodegradable and another Non Degradable. So our Nartikorava Cartman is able to manage them easily. The Degradable goes for Earthworm - manure pit and others to Corporation dumpyard.

Sorry to say this. (This is from our experience for the last 15 years)

The most of the defaulters seem to be the MNC / IT / Big Corp employed Youth or young married couple - both working. They dont pay in time but make the m,ax noise and still do not follow rules.

[arun82]

Originally Posted by kannan infratech

In Alwarpet Mylapore areas, I observed that Ramky has placed new green bins along the streets, but in very less numbers.

The collection man came a few days back and instructed that people who live in flats should keep bins near the gate. They should leave segregated waste in the bins only and not in the bins on the streets.

But we are Indians and segregation practice seems to have died even before it was born. I noticed today that the cart man was struggling to segregate biodegradable from others. It took lots of his time and his supervisor was scolding him for slow work.

We are waiting for Ramky to start in Adyar - maybe by month end only.

We in our Adyar KB Nagar locality have given two different colour bags to keep waste - one is biodegradable and another Non Degradable. So our Nartikorava Cartman is able to manage them easily. The Degradable goes for Earthworm - manure pit and others to Corporation dumpyard.

Sorry to say this. (This is from our experience for the last 15 years)

The most of the defaulters seem to be the MNC / IT / Big Corp employed Youth or young married couple - both working. They dont pay in time but make the m,ax noise and still do not follow rules.

The agencies does not have a hard stand on this issue, People will not listen if they are advised by the collection man. A officer from corporation must do surprise checks at the source collection. For defaulters there must be spot fine . The fine amount should be high for huge waste generators like commercials complex and hotels. Even if they tip the officers to avoid the fine they will ultimately segergate the waste to avoid paying money.