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Mysuru wins award for waste segregation
June 8, 2018
New Delhi: Mysuru has won Four Leaves Award for being the cleanest city (‘medium’ category) at the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Convention on Urban Solid Waste Management in New Delhi. In a release, CSE said that it had been been working with cities to promote and implement source-segregation and decentralized model of waste management.
To scale up its impact, CSE had launched the ‘Forum of Cities that Segregate’ on December12, 2017. The Forum now has 26 members – from Karnataka, Mysuru and Bengaluru feature in the list.
On Friday, CSE released the 2017-18 assessment report of the performance of 20 of these 26 Forum cities. Based on the findings of the assessment report, the best performers were selected and the Leaves Awards conferred on them, the release said.
The cities were assessed based on their performance in the six months since the Forum was launched. The parameters included segregation at source, collection, transportation, wet waste and dry waste processing, adoption of decentralised systems, the inclusion of informal sector in municipal systems and adoption and enforcement of SWM bye-laws and enforcement of Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016.
The Karnataka report card
* Mysuru is segregating 80 per cent of its waste at source and has seven zero waste management units. The city has a 200 tonnes per day (TPD) centralised composting facility as well as a sanitary landfill site.
* According to the Swachh Survekshan 2018 results, Mysuru was adjudged the cleanest in the ‘medium city’ category.
* Bengaluru gets a low score in CSE’s assessment report – registers segregation levels below 60 per cent. While it reflects good collection and transportation facilities, processing seems to be lax with majority of the waste being treated in centralised composting plants. The three operational quarries in Bellahalli, Bagalur and Mittaganahalli receive over 2,500 TPD of waste. Farmers in neighboring fields have been protesting about the unbearable stench.
* Both the cities are yet to adopt bye-laws as per the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. However, Mysuru fares much better in enforcing the major provisions of the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016.
“Sweeping cities is only a small part of the solution to the problem of keeping our cities clean. What is more important is sustainable treatment, recycle and reuse of the waste that they generate,” said Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).
