By M.T. Yogesh Kumar
Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is making all efforts for Mysuru to regain the cleanest city tag and in this direction the civic body has tied up with Kolkata-based multinational company, ITC Limited, to sell plastic waste accumulated in city. Called ‘WoW’ (Well-being out of Waste), the project aims to segregate garbage at the point of generation and pack it into different coloured bags for recycling. Every day nearly 400 to 450 tonnes of waste is collected in the city out of which about 120 to 130 tonnes is plastic waste. The collection and disposal of plastic waste was posing a major problem to the MCC. In the light of this, a ban on usage of plastic was imposed. However, plastic use continues stealthily. Plastic is used to wrap almost all the things packed apart from food items and the MCC is finding it difficult to clear plastic waste scientifically. To fight this problem, MCC had even distributed two types of dustbins to every house to segregate dry and wet waste. But in spite of best efforts, people continue to put both dry and wet waste in one cover which has resulted in a huge problem of segregation at source. Since several years, plastic-mixed garbage is being dumped at the Sewage Farm in Vidyaranyapuram. The stench that emanates from the waste is posing a huge health hazard to the residents of those areas. As the plastic waste does not disintegrate, it has now grown to mountainous proportions over the years. The MCC has come forward to cap it by digging huge pits.
