Chennai: Waste Management

[dkravind]

Originally Posted by murlee

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

The collected waste in Dubai is kept in a secluded place and is fed in to huge machines which crush them to the maximum possible pressure ... In this process plastic ,metal ,cooking /paper waste will come out of the machine separately in the form of boxes ....this will be purchased in large quantities by the companies for recycling them and use it for many purposes ....it is one of the big industries here .....the recycling companies are also owned by the king here ....
They dont burn any waste products in UAE ...

[indiatraveller]

Originally Posted by dkravind

The collected waste in Dubai is kept in a secluded place and is fed in to huge machines which crush them to the maximum possible pressure ... In this process plastic ,metal ,cooking /paper waste will come out of the machine separately in the form of boxes ....

Wall-E like machines? Nice.

[anekho]

Stir over waste dumped at bus stand

Residents and traders in Adambakkam on Saturday protested against the city corporation for dumping waste at the bus terminus.

The locality, which was once a prime a residential area, has now become a breeding ground for mosquitoes and pigs, according to civic activists.

“About 5,000 houses are affected by the stench of garbage stench and there is no respite despite complaints to Chennai Corporation officials,” Adambakkam Officers Colony Welfare Association secretary C. Marshal said.

The demonstrators said the NGO colony bus stand has been literally converted into a dump yard since the city was expanded.

In a day, about 30 trucks dump waste collected from other parts of the city at the bus stand, they alleged, adding that they were forced to sieze the trucks.

Adambakkam Vyabharigal Sangham president R. Selvakumar said that the garbage dumping has been posing health hazards and has also affected the business of local shoppers.

More agitations will be conducted if the corporation fails resolve the garbage menace, he said.

The residents suspended their agitation only after local corporation and police officials assured them that the problem would be resolved in 10 days.

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[vinodgopal]

Originally Posted by indiatraveller

Wall-E like machines? Nice.

yenakkum wall-e than nyabagam vandhichu.

Wall-E climax resembles moondram pirai's by the way ha ha

[anekho]

Waste management: Experts dump hi-tech methods

Experts on municipal waste management who arrived for a convention here at CPR Environmental Education Centre on Friday said Chennai corporation and other local bodies in the state were complicating the concept of waste management resulting in unchecked garbage mounds.

Calling the city corporation’s recent resolution to set up centralised waste treatment and incineration facilities in Perungudi and Kodungaiyur a waste of energy, a group of speakers from Europe, USA and parts of India presented case studies and claimed that centralised composting schemes had poor track record.

The resident welfare associations of Kodungaiyur, Save Pallikarnai Marshlands Forum and the Global Alliance jointly organised the symposium for Incinerator Alternatives in response to the recent proposals by corporation of Chennai for setting up two integrated waste to energy projects in Perungudi and Kodungaiyur.

Mr Joan Marc Simon of Zero Waste Europe, an European coalition of municipalities, companies, universities and organizations across Europe and Ms Nalini Sekhar of Alliance of Indian Wastepickers explained how the state-of-the-art technologies and latest initiatives failed on waste management and insisted that localised solutions like segregation and treatment at source worked out well.

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[anekho]

Drain project still not started

The much-hyped underground drainage network project for the residents of Pallavaram, costing over Rs 36 crore, still remains a non-starter.

A little respite came on Sunday with the local MLA Dhansingh kick starting the application procedure for residents to apply for the underground drainage connection.

The project continues to hang in the balance even after its inauguration by previous DMK ministers last year.

According to municipal sources, the underground drainage project was started with an estimated cost of Rs 34 crore in 2001.

The local body that anticipated public participation also collected the money. However, the project remained on paper and gained momentum later but only after the estimate cost was revised to Rs 36 crore.

The work progressed at a snail pace and only 20 per cent of the work was completed by 2006. DMK, who then came to power, revised the project with a total estimate of Rs 75.33 crore however, the project will begin only by the first week of February, sources said.

Under the first phase around 15,000 houses will be covered. This will later be extended to about 45,000 buildings within the Pallavaram municipal limit.

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[anekho]

SMS fillip for garbage collection


New system for conservancy inspectors and assistant executive engineers launched

As part of its efforts to improve and streamline garbage collection in the city, the Chennai Corporation has launched a new system for its conservancy inspectors and assistant executive engineers. Deputy Commissioner R.Anandakumar said that the over 200 CIs and 45 AEE will have to send text messages with details of garbage collection by compactors and by conservancy staff to a common mobile number.

“The mobile has been connected to a computer, which would generate the list of timings of each round of garbage clearance. Each of them has been given a particular code that would contain the zone number and route,” he explained to the audience at a session organised as part of day 2 of the ‘Municipalika' conference at the Chennai Trade centre on Tuesday. The system was introduced a week ago. The staff at the civic body's lorry sheds would also message the start and end time of each round of garbage collection. The CIs would send messages when the work in each of their wards commences and ends. They monitor door-to-door collection by tricycles and garbage collection by compactors. The AEEs would SMS the time of commencement and ending of vehicle route in the wards that they monitor.

Conservancy work for the morning shift begins by 7 a.m. and goes on till 2 p.m. In the afternoon shift from 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. in which only around 30 per cent of vehicles are put to use, places that need cleaning twice a day are covered, said an official source. The civic body also does night conservancy operations in market areas.

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[vinodgopal]

Garbage trucks must run during night times. They affect traffic during day times and so corporation must understand they must not send those stinky mother truckers across disrupting traffic when most folks go to office.

[kannan infratech]

One good practical decision from CoC.

Earlier Onyx or Neel Metal had only big size compacter - Dumpers. They could not enter small streets which you may find all over Chennai. They would stop at the street corners and obstruct the traffic till the workers cart the bins and load.

CoC now has lots of LCVs fitted with Compacter machinery and they are able to navigate even into small streets. They have also bought BobCats.

I hope that Ramky will also do the same.

[kannan infratech]

Originally Posted by vinodgopal

Garbage trucks must run during night times. They affect traffic during day times and so corporation must understand they must not send those stinky mother truckers across disrupting traffic when most folks go to office.

I fully agree.

But the onus is on us - citizens. As per the survey, max garbage is dumped during 7am to 9am (mostly by maids & office going public). If it is not cleared quickly, dogs and urchins rampage through the same and litter all along the streets.

If all of us dump our waste only during evening, they can come and clean up at nights.

[natarajan1986]

thats right but even that govenment should broadcast through media and educate people on it

[anekho]

Solution for decade-old untreated waste

CHENNAI: In a bid to preserve ground water besides providing a solution to waste dumped for more than a decade, a firm is planning to set up integrated solid waste management facilities in municipal corporations across Tamil Nadu, including Chennai and Tambaram, on a public-private partnership mode.

Talking to Express on the sidelines of Municipalika Making Cities Work, AAPL Infra Private Limited Environment Engineering Division head of finance S Suyampirakasam said they have plans ready for Rs 150 crore Integrated Solid Waste Management facility in six municipal corporations including Thoothkudi, Salem, Dindigul, Pollachi, Sivaganga and Rajapalayam besides initiating discussions on Chennai and Tambaram.

Interestingly, the firm already has begun work on Rs 25-crore project in Ramaianpatti in Tirunelveli. “We are spending Rs 15 crore and Tirunelveli Corporation is spending Rs 10 crore on project divided into four zones, which includes landfilling, refuse devised fuel plant, scientific enclosure and an ecopark. The integrated solid waste management plants would also be able to generate electricity from the processed waste, a source said.

Suyampirakasam said the highlight of the project is the scientific closure where the waste dumped for a decade and which can’t be recycled is being processed and kept under earth. “This ensures that latchet, the liquid generated from the waste, does not pollute the water table. It is collected in a separate tank and treated. We also ensure that there is no generation of methane which is burnt in the atmosphere,” he said and added, “We are also treating 150 metric tonnes of waste which is being generated into biomanure and biofuel, whi-ch has 3,600 calorific value and is cheaper than coal.”

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[madrasi7777]

In my apartment complex in Koyambedu the association has drawn plans to source segregate the garbage and make money out of it. If every street has an association or its equal the source segregation can be done.

[anekho]

Garbage woes continue in Kodambakkam

CHENNAI: The dismal condition of Kodambakkam’s Station Border Road, as reported in City Express on January 4, has elicited a response from the Corporation of Chennai. In a statement, the PRO has stated that the portion of the road adjacent to Rangarajapuram flyover has been inspected and the garbage completely removed.

The PRO C Palaniappan, in his response states, “With new storm water drain construction work having commenced, excavation work and the earth dumped near the collection point hindered garbage collection.

Now, the garbage has been completely removed and a bin has been kept.” In reality, though, the situation has not changed much, say residents.

Meenakshi, a resident, says, “After the coverage, the situation has not improved. The piles of garbage still remain and we continue to find it difficult to dispose the waste.” Sarvesh, a regular commuter along the stretch, said that the trash spills over on to the road, making travelling difficult. “Especially those on two-wheelers find it difficult as they might skid on the garbage. Sometimes, stray cattle are attracted to the bins and this blocks the road.” When informed of the statement received from the Corporation, which says, ‘This location will be maintained in a neat and tidy manner’, Mani, one of the residents, said that the garbage should first be cleared before they make such promises.

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[anekho]

Plastic shortage hits corporation road-laying plan

CHENNAI: The corporation's plastic road project may soon hit a speed-breaker as it is unable to collect enough plastic from households. The civic body had installed special bins in all the 200 wards to collect plastic from residents, but the idea just doesn't seem to work. Corporation commissioner P W C Davidar said people are reluctant to segregate waste and give plastic to conservancy workers. The corporation is now planning to meet the demand by purchasing plastic from manufactures.

"Only a few residents segregate plastic waste. Public cooperation is important in such initiatives," said Davidar. The corporation had planned to collect plastic waste from residents for use in the bitumen mix for re-laying roads. Because of the dearth of locally sourced plastic, the civic body has started buying the material for road laying from the plastic manufacturers association at Rs 20 per kilo. Nearly a tonne of plastic is required for laying one kilometer of road."

G Sankaran, president of the Chennai Plastic Manufacturers and Merchants Association said manufacturers have sold around 10 tonnes of plastic to road contractors. "Though considered waste, the quality of plastics used in laying of roads is important. If plastic is not used properly, it can have adverse effects," he said. Mayor Saidai Duraisamy had recently said that all new road-laying will be done using plastic.

According to the corporation plans, the 1,616 roads to be re-laid in 2011-2012 would have 10% plastic content. In February, the ministry of environment and forests issued a notification to all civic bodies in the country to use plastic in road re-laying. Chennai Corporation in its recent council meet allocated around Rs 50 crore for reducing plastic garbage load at dumpyards and improve the durability of bitumen roads. Officials point to a stretch of road near Jambulingam Street, Nungambakkam as an example of durability because of plastic content. Re-laid seven years ago, the stretch has withstood several monsoons and heavy traffic.

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[karkal]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle2835108.ece

A new garbage collection and street cleaning mechanism has been introduced in the city. This follows the completion of design of the route map of all 200 wards of the Chennai Corporation.

After all the 200 wards, including those covered by private conservancy contractor, Ramky Enviro Engineers, are brought in the system, a list of streets not cleaned would be generated on a daily basis by 10 a.m. at Ripon Building.

Improving accountability

The system would make the officials accountable and facilitate measures to rectify the problems in garbage clearance.

The civic body is also planning to provide online route map for the garbage clearance at the street level in three months.

Vehicle march out time

In the existing system of garbage clearance, information on vehicle march out was provided through wireless only once at 7.30 a.m.

The new system has four levels of supervision accompanied by generation of data through text messages.

At the ward level, conservancy inspectors will send text messages with details of garbage collection by compactors, lorries and tricycles with conservancy staff to a common mobile number linked to an automated system.

The automated system at Ripon Building would maintain a record of each round of garbage clearance by all vehicles including compactor, lorry, front end loader, bob cat, mechanical sweeper and tricycle.

It would include statistics pertaining to wardwise routes, pick up points and the time taken to travel to each spot during the garbage collection process.

SMS to Corporation

The conservancy inspector would text message Chennai Corporation headquarters as and when the vehicles complete the stipulated number of trips daily.

Assistant Engineers in each operating depots would send text messages to the headquarters as soon as the vehicles march out for morning, noon and night shifts.

The messages on vehicle march out would be sent at 7.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m.

A person at the zonal office or transfer station would send text message on departure of vehicles to landfill sites.

Interaction

An assistant executive engineer at the unit level would interact with all conservancy inspectors and assistant engineers to complete garbage clearance of the day by 6 p.m. The official would send the first message at 9 a.m. and the last message at 6 p.m.

[anekho]

Glad to see steps being taken. Let's hope the plan is sustainable and all this actually translates into a cleaner city!

[anekho]

Civic body steps up garbage clearance



Chennai Corporation has decided to procure 1,200 stainless steel bins and 75 heavy compactor vehicles to intensify garbage collection in greater Chennai.

The corporation had also floated tenders to acquire 480 tricycles. The tenders are at the evaluation stage and the procurement will be completed in about a month.

The corporation is all set to add about 170 vehicles to its network, said city corporation superintending engineer Premnath, who heads the solid waste management department. As many as 27 (bob cat) loading machines, 11 earthmovers and 45 light motor vehicles will be procured, he said.

The civic body has also created a unique route map for each ward that will be used by the compactor vehicles and tricycles to cover all the interior and main roads, said city corporation superintending engineer Premnath, who heads the solid waste management department.

The corporation would take a loan of Rs 54 crore from the Tamil Nadu Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation at a low interest rate to supplement the state government’s financial aid and the corporation’s capital revenue, he said.

The decision to procure stainless steel bins has been taken as plastic bins do not last long and are fragile. ]

These bins will be well maintained to mitigate stench and will allso have lids, which will check rag pickers from collecting bottles and plastic from waste and dumping the remnants on the streets, the official said.

The city corporation is now collecting close to about 4,500 tonnes of waste with the help of about 9,000 conservancy workers, he said.

Sewage dumping endangers Manali lake

Dumping of garbage and sewage continues unabated in Manali-Madhavaram Lake , endangering a huge water resource.

The 150-acre lake has already been reduced to less than 100 acres by continued encroachment and garbage dumping by local bodies and the continued dumping of garbage and sewage threatens to shrink the effective area further.

Residents of Mathur are concerned about the deteriorating quality of water coming out of their domestic and deep borewells as groundwater recharge takes place from the lake.

“Not only the local bodies, even the waste from poultry farms and shops are being dumped in the lake,” the president of the TNHB Colony Residents Consumer Protection Awareness Welfare Association, B. Thirugnanam, said. The groundwater level has gone down alarmingly from 30–40 ft to 120 ft, he pointed out.

“Besides strengthening the bunds of the lake, the government should take steps to deepen and desilt the lake as it will help improve water quality,” Thirugnanam said.

The local bodies surrounding the lake were dumping the garbage despite numerous complaints made by him, said the founder-president of Environmental Protection Trust, M. Mahalingam.

“We had cleaned up the lake with NSS volunteers of JHA Agarcen College in Madhavaram in December 2009. However, the local bodies continue to dump garbage,” he complained.
The lake used to attract a large variety of birds but not anymore.

A recent study by Nature Trust, an NGO working on the flora and fauna recorded in the lake, showed that about 55 species of birds have been reported in the wetland.

As many as 500 birds were regularly sighted till the mid nineties during the mid-winter water bird census conducted in January. However, the number of birds visiting the lake had decreased, the study revealed.

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[anekho]

Mobile apps to clear city waste

Chennai Corporation, which has bagged the Prime Minister’s award for e-governance initiatives plans to introduce mobile applications for better waste management.

The corporation has framed a module that will function with sms as the medium carrying data related to the working of 300-odd vehicles collect garbage in the city.

These SMSes sent by corporation sanitary workers and field engineers to the city corporation database would be similar to 1 01A H26 L13 U5 F1, 2 079 ER1 R2 R3 T 238. They would indicate the ward number, zonal number, street number and the vehicles used for clearing the garbage.

The areas from where the data code smses fail to come in at a specific time will be treated as areas with garbage stagnation complaints, a corporation official said.

The sms module is functioning on a trail basis, said Chennai corporation spokesperson Palaniappan. In a fortnight, the module will be implemented in all the 200 wards of the city corporation.

The corporation is reinstalling global positioning devices in its trucks to monitor the vehicles that handle waste management.

The idea is to prevent diesel pilferage and encourage punctuality among corporation drivers, he said.

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[karkal]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...w/11643808.cms

CHENNAI: The issue of uncleared garbage across the city is among the issues expected to generate much heat at the corporation council meeting at Ripon Buildings on Friday.

The Corporation of Chennai has received Rs 54 crore from the Tamil Nadu Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited for purchasing more conservancy vehicles and garbage bins. "We have completed mapping in 200 wards to monitor garbage collection. All vehicles will be monitored through a global positioning system (GPS) and through a system of sending SMS messages," said a senior corporation official adding that 1,200 steel bins would be bought.

Sources in Ripon Buildings said Friday's meeting was expected to approve the sanctioning of Rs 2.55 crore for 15 units for shredding plastic waste that the civic body plans to use to re-lay roads. The corporation council will also purchase 27 heavy compactors at an estimated Rs 3.91 crore and 15 tipper lorries for Rs 2 crore.

The council is also likely to introduce 'transferable development rights certificates' that will enable a person whose land has been acquired for development activity to claim a similar measure of land elsewhere in the city.

On the plan to introduce a code of conduct in a bid to rein in the media, DMK leader T Subash Chandra Bose said "if there is any plan to introduce any code of conduct against mediapersons we will protest."

The council is expected to approve a tender for supplying free sanitary napkins for 33,000 girl students. Corporation school teachers and students will get rewards for academic excellence and special funds allocated for maths coaching. About Rs 4.96 lakh will be spent on a national tour package for 50 meritorious students of corporation schools and steps will be taken to improve sports infrastructure. The council will approve the proposal to change uniforms of nursing staff on a seniority basis.