Dry Waste Collection Centre and Material Recovery Facility (MRF) at Thongum Poonga

Budget : 65K - 70K

Innovation Type (Process/ Product): Process

About the Project:

The resource recovery centre is located within the city near Windsor Palace Hotel. The facility has proper sheds, bins and partitions for the segregated waste. The land for the facility is provided by Salem Municipal Corporation on lease to the company for handling the dry waste collection. The centre was established in July 2015 and caters to two zones namely Kondalampatty and Hasthampatty of Salem Municipal Corporation. Sanitary workers of the corporation collect the dry waste every day from the two zones of the corporation. Besides, the public in the nearby areas also hand over the waste at the centre and avail the benefit of sale. In addition, the Kuppaikaran team also sends a vehicle every Saturday to collect the waste from specified locations. The collected waste is weighed and sanitary workers are paid as per the amount fixed per unit of the type of waste collected. The collected segregated waste is then further sorted and stored separately. The sanitary workers are also given report cards and bills to encourage them to segregate and recover more dry waste. Besides this, monthly review meetings are held with respective sanitary officers and inspectors to discuss ways and means to capture more waste. The operational cost includes the staff salaries and transportation cost of segregated waste to the authorized recyclers. The segregated waste is transported to the authorized recyclers every fifteen days.Through “The Bhogi Bucket Challenge!” jointly organized Salem Corporation and Kuppaikaran team, 20 tons of old clothes were collected and segregated into reusables and recyclables. The reusable items were given to the needy and the recyclables were sent for recycling.Kuppaikaran with the help of Code enterprise, a company based in Noida (near Delhi) have found an environmentally safe way of disposing the cigarette butts. Code enterprise converts the tobacco and paper in the cigarette butts into manure. Even the filter is turned into reusable plastic through chemical treatment. Kuppaikaran buys these cigarette butts from the shopkeepers of teastalls at a cost of Rs. 100/kg and further segregates, packs and transports them to Noida bearing a cost of Rs. 450/ kg. Code enterprise buys these collected cigarette butts for a cost of Rs. 600/ kg. Thus, besides resolving the issue of managing the waste of cigarette butts, the company also earns a profit of Rs. 150/kg.77,525 per year.

Sector : Solid Waste Management

Pilot City : Salem, Tamil Nadu

Ownership : Salem Municipal Corporation

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Solid Waste Management Practices in Urban India

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