Corporators from all parties who took up the garbage issue and debated for more than an hour, could not find any solution to the problem of trash piling up across the city. The elected members demanded that civic administration ensure that all the accumulated waste in the city is processed. Civic officials expressed their inability to do so.
Heaps of rotting, stinking garbage are beginning to pile up on the street corners in the city as 4,000 metric tonne waste has not been cleared in the last seven days.
Villagers in Phursungi and Uruli, where the Pune Municipal Corporation takes the city’s garbage for processing, have restricted civic officials from bringing more garbage than the processing plant’s capacity which was reduced because of a fire last week.
The city generates an average of 1,600 metric tonne garbage every day. The plant, which can process 1,000 metric tonne waste, has been able to process only 600 metric tonne.
After talking with residents in Phursungi, they said the civic administration should send only that quantity of garbage, which can be processed. They were trying to see if other processing units take more loads and problem can be solved, said head of solid waste management department, speaking in the GB.
Source: dnaindia, Jan’14
