The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation is going to make segregation of garbage at households mandatory across the city.
With this, the civic body plans to reduce the burden of transportation and treatment of excess garbage and also reuse the segregated waste. People at households and all other places, where both dry and wet waste is generated, have to maintain separate bins and hand over separately to the door-to-door garbage collection staff.
In a press conference here, Municipal Commissioner J. Nivas said that so far the focus of VMC was on effective transportation of the waste generated in the city. “Now we are going to focus on segregation at the generation level and make it compulsory at all levels. The burden of transportation of at least 50% of the 550 tonnes of garbage will be reduced daily if the wet waste is utilised at compost plants. About 60 to 70% of the waste is wet and only 10% plastic could be extracted out of total waste,” Mr. Nivas said.
“In the slum areas, the corporation will distribute the coloured bins to households and it is the responsibility of colony associations and individuals to ensure that separate bins are maintained. After creating awareness, the civic body will stop receiving garbage if segregation is not done,” Mr. Nivas said.
The civic body has already distributed bins in a municipal ward and is collecting segregated garbage on a daily basis at present.
