Plant Itself Becomes Waste

A biogas plant costing around 8lakhs that had been installed 7 months back at Ramanattukara is no more in a working condition .Due to this the waste at this area heaped up. It is said that the plant is not working as there has been some mistake in the arranging underlying facilities required .The plant was made to work only during the inaugural days and after that it was left isolated. Equipments including the pulverizer is lying abandoned in the nearby market building. The plant is built such that the pulverizer  is used only when it is required to breakdown the waste and an iron cage was planned to be built near the bio gas plant to keep the pulverizor but no measures were taken regarding this and the pulverizer was left in the market building.

The biogas plant has the capacity to dispose 250 kg of waste daily and if this was working it could be a solution to the waste management crisis that prevailed in that area.

Leaders Set Example; Waste Mud Becomes Manure

The waste mud at Lalur, Trichur had been a controversy for many years and finally the councilors set an example by allowing the mud to be deposited at their homes. After that the demand for thewaste mud at Lalur has been rising .When the plastics were removed, the waste mud turned to fertile manure .The local public continued what the councilors began and now the demand for the mud was rising. Bookings were taken and even after booking the mud was difficult to obtain.

Talks regarding removing the mud from lalur were not reaching anywhere as the people did not allow the waste mud to be put anywhere near their surroundings. It was the Trichur cooperation health standing chairman C.S Srinivas who said that the councilors including him would allow the mud to be deposited at their homes and the result was an example set for the country itself by the councilors of Trichur cooperation .

The mud was deposited starting from the homes of deputy mayor Adv. Subibabu, councilor Jaya Muthupeedika. When the counsillors agreed, the public agreed to deposit the mud at their homes too. The truck containing waste mud that was once blocked was now been craved for.

New Plans for Waste Management

A three phase plan would come to place regarding the waste disposal system in the state and along with that the operations of existing system at different localities will be subjected to something similar to the 5 year plans, said the governor H.R Bharadwaj in his speech.

The three phase plan would include the segregation of waste including plastics, independent units for waste disposal, encouraging the use of new technology. For this different plans will be initiated at various institutions in major cities. Some of them will be installing waste disposing systems at homes and institutions. He also said that plans will be initiated that would ensure kerala the Nirmal state award.

The cooperation could not use or proceed with the plans that were decided to be done with one third of 40,000 crore rupees that was allowed in the 11^th 5 year plan. To solve this problem the city cooperation works will be upgraded to something similar to the 5 year plans. This year itself an elected leadership will be formed for the Kudumbashree Unit and various Agro business units will be established under Kudumbashree. 16,500 people will be allowed loan through Kudumbashree.

A double entry accounting system “samkya” will come to place and palliative care plan will be spread to all panchayats.

A zero waste culture will be encouraged and for this 100 more panchayats will have green technology centers. To fight poverty Ajeevika central plan will be initiated. Kilak will become a recognized university. The past governments had failed to use the fund for building the Rajiv Ghandi Bharat Nirman Seva centers and now measures will be taken to open these centers in all villages, block panchayats ,said the governor in his speech

Waste Turns To Electricity

 Purathy , a small panchayat near to kannur town with flats and other housing colonies, should naturally have problems related to waste management ,but Purathi is totally a zero waste area as it has a panchayat installed biogas plant . Workers appointed by the panchayat collects waste daily from the houses and deposits it into the plant and the biogas obtained is used for lighting around 50 street lamps and now plans are made to increase it to 200.Other than the gas ,the residue obtained is bottled up and sold as manure for Rs 30 per Kg. The plant has a capacity to dispose 300 kg of waste daily .The gas obtained can produce around 5 Kw electricity daily. For disposing waste people are given two buckets, one for kitchen waste and other for plastics. Plans for building a plastic recycling plant for Rs 7 lakhs is going on.

After the success of the installed biogas plant, plans for two more plants are going on with one plant having a capacity of disposing around 1500 kg of waste daily. This may cost around 30 lakhs for which a subsidy of around 4 lakhs will be allowed. 10 Kw of electricity can be generated from the 1500 capacity biogas plant which would be enough to light up the area measuring up to half a kilometer around the plant. The Biotek Company running with the help of the central government are the builders of the plant and they have the responsibility to run the plant for 1 year after construction. The company also takes up small projects suitable for homes that will cost around 8700 rupees after subsidy. The gas obtained can be used for 2 hours of cooking and the manure can be used for the garden.