Those having independent houses should install compost units: NGT Chairman Subhash B Adi
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Mysuru: National Green Tribunal Chairman Justice Subash B Adi directed those having independent houses to have separate compost units to check the menace of waste.
Addressing media persons Subash B Adi explained that “management of solid waste plays a key role in any city. We have already interacted with Mysuru City Corporation as the responsibility of managing waste is decentralised.”
The district officers including Deputy Commissioner, SP and top level officers should also mandatorily have wet waste units installed at their houses. Not just government offices, semi government offices, organisations, hospitals, marriage halls among several others should incorporate methods to dispose wet waste on their own. It will reduce the generation of waste at the source itself.”
Till today two methods of waste segregation were in practice. Now, three types of model have come into existence. Wet waste, Dry waste and Hazardous waste is the priority. In the present scenario, the model of waste collection in Mysuru is at good level.”
In the next 15 days MCC will do massive awareness programme. The other 15 days will be for executing the plans and after one month we will again review the progress, he added.
Plan is afoot to make Mysuru plastic free first and next garbage free. The time required to clear three lakh legacy waste needs six months. Once the tender is closed, the deadline will start, he added.
All these efforts are being made to make Mysuru retain the top rankings in clean city survey. It was in 2015-16, Mysuru got first place, but slipped in the rankings later. With several activities planned, we are hoping to catapult Mysuru in clean city rankings with people’s cooperation, said Subhash Adi.
MCC Commissioner G Lakshmikantha Reddy, Health officer Dr DG Nagaraj and pollution control board officers were present.
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