Zero Waste Management (ZWM) Plant at Kumbarakoppal

Budget : 2.68 Lakhs per month

Innovation Type (Process/ Product): Process

About the Project:

The “Zero Waste System” at Kumbarakoppal was started in 2005 and covers 5 wards of Mysuru Municipal Corporation. The population served is 20,000 and waste collected per day amounts to an average of 9 MT. The FMCWP operates the solid waste management system in this area. It is entrusted with the work of collection, segregation and selling of waste. The system occupies an area of 0.6 ha of land and accommodates a segregation area, compost beds, shed for storage of segregated waste and vehicle parking area. Two people are assigned for door to door collection of waste from the wards from 7 AM to 10 AM. Residents have been provided with two plastic bins for separation of wet and dry waste. About 75% of the waste gets segregated at this stage.3 Transportation of wet and dry waste is done in vehicles but with two different compartments. Each vehicle has an average capacity of 400 kg. Collected dry waste is transported to the segregation plant. The wet waste is directly supplied to the composting beds. Segregation of dry waste is done in two stages. In the first stage, segregation of plastic, glass, and soft plastic is done. The second stage involves segregation of the sub parts of each material for marketing i.e. plastic with different colors and thickness. Segregation of dry waste is done in 17 categories, viz. (i) Milk covers (ii) Plastic bags (iii) Tablet (iv) Bulb (v) Oil packets (vi)Glass pieces (vii) Shoes (viii) Black Plastic (ix) White Plastic (x) Colored Plastic (xi) Tooth paste (xii) Cardboard (xiii) Waste Paper (xiv) Tins (xv) Road waste (xvi) Beer bottles (xvii) Plastic Bottles. Segregation of all material is done manually. Segregated bio degradable waste is directly dumped in composting beds. Each bed has a dimension of 3m x 3m x 1.8m.Usually two months are required to completely fill one composting bed. The compost is sold to local farmers. A ‘Stree Shakti’ group is formed by local women which works for social awareness, daily report of waste collection and cooperation between workers and public at Kumbarakoppal. The net profit from the solid waste management system is utilized for providing medical and educational facilities to workers.

Sector : Solid Waste Management

Pilot City : Mysuru, Karnataka

Ownership : Mysuru Municipal Corporation

Know More : www.mysorecity.mrc.gov.in

Connect : comm_mcc@yahoo.co.in

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Best Practices

Solid Waste Management Practices in Urban India

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