The city Corporation is set to act as a facilitator for the collection and disposal of waste material from barber shops, tailoring shops, and supermarkets.
The initiative is part of the plans to expand the existing periodic dry waste collection programme by including more variety of waste materials.
No space or money
According to a Corporation official, many of the establishments in the city do not have the adequate arrangements or the space or money to set up arrangements for disposal of waste produced on their premises. The local body is thus stepping in with a solution for them.
“As per the licence conditions, all establishments are supposed to have proper waste treatment or disposal arrangements.
“But many of them have been complaining for long that they have been unable to make such arrangements. So, the Corporation has decided to act as a facilitator. We have talked to the agency from Nagercoil that is already collecting plastic waste from the city.
Meeting
“On Wednesday, we will be holding a meeting with the representatives of the organisations related to barber shops, tailoring shops, and supermarkets, and arrive at an understanding,” said the official. The Corporation had also earlier tried various methods to dispose of waste from barber shops, but all of these attempts had failed.
The waste from barber shops will now be segregated and handed over to the agency, which will hand it over to a company that makes wigs.
The tailoring shops also generate huge amounts of waste cloth material.
The agency will hand over this to a company that makes doormats using such cut cloth pieces.The waste materials that will be collected from supermarkets include mostly materials used for packing, including large plastic covers, cardboard boxes and paper. “The Corporation incurs no costs as per this arrangement.
“We expect a considerable reduction in the volume of waste with such initiatives,” said the official.
