From December, every third Sunday likely to be e-waste collection day

MYSURU: If everything goes as per plan, from

December

, every third

Sunday

will be

e-waste

collection day. For the last three months, the 17th of every month was dedicated to collect e-waste from households in the city.

It can be recalled that in September 2,200kg of e-waste was collected by pourakarmikas. In October, it was one tonne. In November, the segregation of e-waste is under progress.

According to D G Nagaraju, health officer,

MCC

, till now pourakarmikas were collecting e-waste from households on the 17th of every month. “Now, to ensure that the city residents will not face any inconvenience to handover e-waste to pourakarmikas, a suggestion to change the day to third Sunday has been mooted,” he said.

“Sunday means everyone will be at home. It will be helpful for all the city residents,” he added.

“On November 16, all the pourakarmikas and over 150 NGO representatives were trained in a workshop on e-waste

collection

by a Bengaluru-based organisation. The idea was to ensure that the pourakarmikas will be able to implement our e-waste collection initiative successfully,” he said.

According to G Manjunath, a supervisor working with the health department of the MCC, the pourakarmikas are well informed about the e-waste collection drive.

A good move

According to city residents, the idea of collecting e-waste directly from the city residents every month is a very good idea. But the need of the hour is strict implementation and penalty on all those who fail to comply. “In many parts of the city, many families are reluctant to segregate waste at source. They keep on throwing waste in public places. Like BBMP in Bengaluru, the corporation must hire marshals and penalise such lawbreaking residents,” said Poornima Nagaraj, a resident of Vidyaranyapuram.