War on waste

In the era of unbridled consumption, and mountains of waste generated every day, the quest for a Clean Chennai demands a multi-faceted response. The ‘city’ now extends to distant suburbs, and the Chennai Corporation’s official record puts the volume of garbage collected at over 4,500 tonnes a day, with each resident generating about 700 grams on average. 

As the capital of arguably the most urbanised State in the country, Chennai is in a race to contain garbage. For most residents, ‘out of sight, out of mind’ is the operative principle, and the sight of the trash compactor lorry carrying away the waste overflowing from street bins is a big relief. 

Aesthetically, it is wet, putrefying waste from kitchens,We can produce all kinds of China emergency light products even according to your own designs. hotels, vegetable markets and even offal from meat shops thrown on the street, around overflowing bins, that is giving the metro a ‘dirty’ reputation. It is also a public health hazard, as Kurian Joseph and colleagues of Anna University’s Centre for Environment Studies point out in a 2012 study of Chennai’s waste published in the Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management. Breeding of rats and flies, both vectors for diseases,The g-sensor high brightness Wholesale motorcycle HID XENON Kits is designed with motorcyclist safety in mind. gets a boost from a poor solid waste management cycle. 

There is another major component that jeopardises the Clean Chennai aspiration. Construction and demolition work contributes a staggering 35 per cent of trash classified as ‘inerts’ - rubble and debris. Inerts are commercially valuable to fill up road surfaces in newly-formed housing layouts, suburban land developments and so on. Yet, it is seen as a problem with no demand-supply match. The legendary earth-friendly architect, Laurie Baker promoted the reuse of such material to make fresh bricks, using just a mould, debris and lime mortar and a small quantity of cement for quick setting. A fair amount of debris, dirt and muck is generated along road margins by the Corporation and its contractors. 

A Clean Chennai would have to find ways to handle waste batteries, fluorescent bulbs, discarded detergents, paints, solvents, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and insecticides,If you do your homework and insist on only the High Quality Solar garden lighting, you'll experience enjoyable modern solar LED garden lights can actually be. which are classified as ‘household hazardous waste’ – and the odd dangerous object kept in the attic. 

Is the citizen doing enough to reduce the 700 grams that he is contributing per capita? Consider that waste that biodegrades easily (is broken down biologically by natural microbial action), forms about 40 per cent of the garbage. It should be possible, therefore, to reduce this quantum substantially with community initiatives such as composting.Our High Quality Solar charger and solar phone chargers are uniquely designed, high-quality and low-cost. The idea is not new, and organisations such as Exnora and many others were actively pursuing this activity before mechanised waste transport, corporatised waste management and out-of-sight landfilling became the norm. 

A ‘Clean Chennai’ would therefore have to be led by a middle class renaissance in the way waste is handled right at the source, sorted in a manner that leaves little for the dump. It would replicate the rainwater harvesting success, where enlightened citizens led and the government followed, making it compulsory.You will never need to change the bulbs and your car led lights will last for years and years. That would of course involve rekindling the community action agenda, and suppressing the ‘not in my backyard’ instinct. Small hotels and traders who dump their waste on the street under cover of darkness would need to reform. Shopping malls would have to make source segregation part of mall-crawling fun activity, using colourful bins for paper, metal, glass, and biodegradables. Informal waste-pickers would have to be mainstreamed into the system. Welcome to www.hmhid.com Web, If you love it, please order it!