Corporation workers draw rangoli to spread awareness against open dumping

ERODE: In a bid to stop public from dumping garbage in the open, conservancy workers under Erode Municipal Corporation has started to draw rangloi at places in the city where bins were earlier placed.

There are 60 wards in the corporation limits, and about 250 tonnes of garbage was generated everyday which is dumped at Variapalayam and Vendipalayam.  Earlier this garbage was collected via door to door collection method but as part of implementing the solid waste management effectively, the corporation had decentralised the process of dumping the garbage at these yards and had established micro composing centres at 19 places in the city.

In the initial stage of spreading awareness and to stop public from throwing garbage in open, dustbins placed at various places at Ward 4, including Eswaran Street, Pattakarar Street, Old Railway Station Road, Thangaperumal Street, Nilgiris Road, and near bus stand were removed. The workers then drew rangloi at those places with awareness messages asking the public not to dump the garbage and keep the roads clean.

Officials said that, since degradable and bio-degradable garbage are collected separately from households, dustbins in these areas were removed and rangoliswere drawn. This move will not only encourage the public to not dump garbage at these site, but it would also pave way for effective implementation of solid waste management in the city. Centres were being constructed at Anna Nagar,Peelamedu,Muthusamy Colony, Vendipalayam and Cauvery Roadwhere the organic waste would be converted into fertilizers. This would, in turn, reduce the dumping of garbage at Vendipalayam where bio-mining is in progress.