Hailed for achieving 100 per cent success rate in segregating and disposing dry and wet household waste in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation limits, the Rajendranagar Circle is poised for another rare feat.
In the coming few days, the entire wet waste generated in the 50,000 households will not be required to be transported out of the area as it will be used for composting locally. The GHMC and the Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University, Rajendranagar have agreed to work together to make good use of the wet waste.
Presently, the Rajendranagar Circle generates close to 45 tonnes of domestic waste of which 50 per cent is wet waste.
“We had meeting with the University Vice-Chancellor to use the wet waste for compost. We have identified a place in Rajendrananagar and the vegetable waste will be transported there. The University will use it to compost and distribute it to the farmers. We want to make sure that dry or wet waste is not transported to Jawaharnagar as our aim is to take up waste management locally. A dry resource centre will also be started in the area so that the dry waste is taken for recycling by the ITC company,” said Srinivas Reddy, Zonal Commssioner, South, GHMC.
With 52 Swachh Autos involved in door-to-door garbage collection, a request has been placed by the South Zone civic officials to add 15 more autos to improve efficiency in disposing waste.
