BIO-BINS INSTALLED TO MANAGE ORGANIC WASTE
The Thiruvananthapuram Swathinagar Residents
Association (SRA) on Sunday,18th November,2012, installed six
‘bio-bins’ on the colony premises at West Fort here.Inaugurated by Health
Minister V.S. Sivakumar, the concept takes origin, and technical help, from
Clean City Movement of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association
of India (CREDAI). CREDAI’s project manager Simon Cherian said Swathinagar was
the 108th complex in the city to have the bins. Many of them, he said, had tied
up with Horticorp as well to use the compost from the bins for their rooftop
garden and vegetable cultivation projects.SRA president A.A. Karim said the
association had been grappling with garbage disposal problems ever since the
Corporation stopped collecting household waste in December last. It had finally
zeroed in on the bio-bin concept and a separate shed had been constructed to
house the bins, which would collect waste from the 122 houses in the colony.
The cost of the project was Rs.3 lakh, said SRA secretary S. Vinod.
The garbage would be segregated into
organic waste, non-decaying waste, and dangerous materials like broken bulbs,
bottles, metals, pesticide covers etc. Of these, the organic waste would be put
into the bins, which would turn the same into manure over a period of 20 days.As
many as 102 building complexes in the State capital had already installed the
bins and five others were in the process of getting them. In Kochi, 320 flat
complexes were using the system successfully, Mr. Cherian said.
Prof.
John Kurakar
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