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The Chennai Corporation, the civic body responsible for the collection
and disposal of municipal waste in Chennai, India, will extend its
programme of source segregation of waste to 75 more wards by next
month.
For this, it is procuring 700,000 plastic bags and over 140 red
tricycles painted for collecting the recyclable waste from residents,
according to a senior official of the civic body.
The bags along with pamphlets will be distributed free of charge and
collected from residents every second week by conservancy workers who
will pay the household for recyclables
based on weight.
The civic body has provided weighing machines for the conservancy
workers. The plastic
waste is purchased at the rate of Rs.2.50 per kg (5 US cents
per kg).
In April this year, the Corporation launched the source segregation
scheme, to promote segregation of recyclable waste, by distributing
bags to residents of 17 wards in six of its 10 zones. The scheme of
purchasing recyclable waste is being implemented by ITC Ltd in four
wards of Zone 5 (Kilpauk).
