Waste soon to managed door-to-door

KANPUR: Cardinal principle of life science says energy can never be destroyed but it gets converted from one form to another. Going by it, an integrated solid waste management (ISWM) project has been started in the city. The project, funded under JNNURM, will see the qualitative value products being re-cycled out of waste both degradable and non-degradable.The garbage collection will be done from the door of each house in the Kanpur city and dumped at the selected spot.
The garbage collection may start from July and initially 20 wards have been selected on an experimental basis.
Talking to TOI, Dr LK Tiwari, city health officer, said: "Though similar project is operational in Ahmedabad, ISWM of Kanpur holds the distinction of first project undertaken in the country that collection work and transportation work will be done with the help of public participation."
Though CNDS (Construction Design Services), a UP Jal Nigam unit, has been authorized to do the project, it is getting handy support of the Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC).
The cost of ISWM project is Rs 56.24 crore and it will be developed on a 46-hectare land at Panki BhauSingh on the bypass road. Daily, this city of 55 lakh population, produces about 1,200 metric ton solid waste which has been disposed of at the considered site for several years in the past by KMC.
Noida-based A2Z are the private partners in the project. Tobacco pouches are being used to construct plastic boards. Company has constructed roads inside dumping grounds for the facilitation of vehicles.
The company has undertaken the work of manufacturing fertilizers from the waste and daily about 400 sacks of fertilizers are being manufactured here. A Pune-based laboratory has undertaken the task of investigating the quality of fertilizers in the city.
Tiwari further added: "Other products being manufactured there are green coal, inter-locking tiles. These tiles are not as hard as those manufactured from cement, but can be used at places where there is low pressure applied such as foot-paths."
About 90 per cent of the waste will be utilized in this manner. The remaining waste will be spread in four acre area and dumped in two-ft deep pits which will be covered by 1.5 mm thick plastic. Once the pits are filled, the area will be developed as parks.
An excited Tiwari added: "The waste ground of yesterdays can be developed as picnic spot as well as the 81,000 square metre area will be used for planting around 9,857 plants."