KOCHI: On the eve of the meeting to be held on Tuesday, Almitra Patel, a former member of the Supreme Court Committee for Solid Waste Management has asked the Chief Minister to carefully deal with the serious issue of solid waste treatment plant at Brahmapuram. In a memorandum to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, she reminded him about the Municipal Soild Waste Rules 2000, which clearly states that municipalities should make use of waste so as to minimise the burden on landfill and biological processing for stabilisation of waste. Such stabilisation can and should start at every existing open dump for every incoming truckload. But a far better alternative is the successful Kochi model for decentralised composting in biobins and compost pots.“If such a big city like Kochi can steadily handle 30 tonnes per day in a division-wise ward-wise manner with tremendous savings in pollution both by waste and by transport vehicles, how much easier will it be for tiny polluted towns like Pathanamthitta and Kottayam to manage their far smaller quantities of waste,” she said in the memorandum.She also cautioned the Chief Minister to issue the work only to those companies which have a clean and successful image. Some solid waste management companies are in the blacklist of states like Maharashtra and UP.
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