CMC shows BMP way to dumpyard

CMC shows BMP way to dumpyard
The Times of India

Bangalore: A silent revolution has taken place on the fringes of Bangalore. What the city civic authorities could not do all these years, this “poor cousin’’ of Bangalore has done. It has set an example to the entire state.
Welcome to Mahadevapura City Municipal Council (CMC) which is the first urban local body in Karnataka to have put the solid waste management and disposal system in its place scientifically. Even as the BMP from past several years has been desperately trying to dispose of the 2,600-odd tonnes of garbage generated daily, the CMC has gone a step further. It has developed a landfill and has outsourced the collection to Stree Shakti groups.
While the BMP has been harping on introducing solid waste management cess for the last five years, Mahadevapura has already started collecting the cess. A pilot project mooted six months ago by the Mahadevapura CMC has become a precedent for other urban local bodies. So much so, it has even trained the members of self-help groups to drive autotippers — the designated garbage collecting vehicles.
According to municipal administration directorate officials, with an initial investment of Rs 1 crore from the government under Nirmala Nagara scheme, the initiative was a result of sustained planning by the then CMC commissioner Chikka Venkatappa. The funds were used for procuring bins and tippers. A 10-acre plot at Chimmasandra was identified for landfill which has been developed into an engineering landfill.
“An engineering landfill is one where deep pits are dug in which garbage is dumped and subsequently covered with soil to avoid birds and animals meddling with it. After years of dumping, the pit becomes full and the garbage would have composed. On this land, a park is usually developed. This is a process where the adjacent habitats are not affected,’’ officials explained.
The CMC, spread over 47 sq km, has 31 wards, 55,000 households that generate 90 tonnes of garbage every day. More than 255 members of Stree Shakti groups are involved in the preliminary collection of garbage in the auto-tippers which is transported to secondary bins. The landfill has been designed in such a way that it takes care of the requirements of KR Puram CMC also.
RULE BOOK
What the Municipal Solid Wastes (management & handling) Rules say
Biodegradable waste has to be processed by composting, vermi-composting, anaerobic digestion.
Other technologies for treatment such as gasification, incineration require clearance from pollution control board.
Landfilling should be the waste disposal method for non-biodegradable, inert waste and other waste that is not suitable for recycling or biological processing.