Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) is planning to make waste management law of 2016 more stringent. As per the law, they have ordered schools, hospitals and hotels to manage their waste cautiously as they’ve been allowed to generate only 100kgs of waste in a day. Adding to that, all such institutions have been asked to segregate waste as wet and dry. If they continue doing so, they’d be rewarded.
VMC is especially focusing on the fact that, hotels, hospitals and schools should not exceed producing waste more than 100 kgs per day. A punishment is yet to be proposed like if they fail to do so, they’d be fined with Rs 10,000.
In the occasion where more than 100 people would be gathering at a place where there’d be serving of food, the organiser has to inform the nearest ward office of VMS and ensure them that there would be segregation of wet and dry waste after the program.
The step is taken to maintain cleanliness and also to inculcate the values of sustainability among the citizens of Vadodara. The corporation has also started the Material Recovery Facility which is a garbage transfer station where small vans would be collecting the waste and later transferring it to the big trucks that would carry it to the landfill site. VMC is planning to open more such three centres in the city and Atladara already has one.
This is done in order to officially channelise the hushed manner of rag pickers where they sell saleable materials without depositing them at VMC’s landfills.
The civic body will continue to process whatever waste remains after its recovery which would include the production of Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF) pellets.
