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Rajendranagar GHMC finds a lasting solution to stinking garbage issue

With a comprehensive and technical approach to the garbage management system, the GHMC Sanitary Wing of Rajendranagar finds a lasting solution to the garbage issue that left the officials high and dry for years.

The officials reached this point in just two years where they can make much of the mechanical approach to address the stinking and painstaking issue of garbage disposal which, in the past, has taken a toll on them heavily.

Spreading in a sprawling area of 3.5 acres at Katedhan, the dumping yard was set up two years ago to dump the garbage being collected from different areas under Rajendranagar. However, soon the officials mooted an idea to begin the process of segregation of garbage under the shade using several cutting-edge machines.

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The idea has proved a big success as the officials now manage to turn the garbage​,​ being collected from different areas​,​ into a source of revenue by selling half of the reusable trash to recycling units before shifting the remaining dead waste to the Jawaharnagar dumping yard.

To put the full-fledged segregating unit into operational mode, the officials employed several laborers to segregate at least 17 types of waste material. This has also created promising employment for almost 190 people who are involved in the end-to-end garbage treatment process under Rajendranagar.

“The dumping yard is helping us in two ways at a time like providing us space both for dumping the garbage and segregating the reusable material using men and machines under one roof. We have a fleet of 100 open tippers for door-to-door garbage collection under Rajendranagar. Besides, out of a total strength of 190 members, at least 120 laborers carry out door-to-door garbage collection while the remaining 70 supervise the entire process,” informed Anjaneulu, Incharge Dumping Yard and a Liaisoning Officer GHMC Circle No.11, Rajendranagar.

After shifting the garbage to the dumping yard, he said, the process of segregation of waste material begins using machines like Dedusting machine of 10 hp for segregation of garbage, Shudder machine of 5 hp for crushing the hard stuff, Bailing Machine of 10 hp for compressing the dry waste material. “Every month around 100 tons of reusable stuff is being segregated in the yard that includes Plastic, Metal, Paper, Glass, Pet Bottles, Books and even cotton waste. All the stuff ​is ​later sold to recycling units while the dead waste material has been shifted to Jawahar Nagar’s dumping yard. The setting-up of the dumping yard ​has ​​​helped​ us create employment for almost 190 people who are involved in the end-to-end garbage treatment process under Rajendranagar,” he asserted.

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The changing trend in the garbage management system even attracted the team of officials from the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) who visited the dumping yard and were fascinated​​ with the throughput involved in the process of garbage treatment and disposal.  ​