 Gangtok,
Sep 7: The AusAid-funded Gangtok Water Supply and Sanitation
Project, has taken up another cleanliness drive, after declaring the
M. G. Marg as a litter and spit-free zone.
The solid waste management campaign launched yesterday will don
the dual colors of blue and green.
The slogan, `add two colours to your life`, is aimed
to achieve total waste separation at source by ensuring that household
garbage is put separately into two different bins - one blue
and the other green.
Recyclable wastes will be disposed in the blue bin while the bio-degradables
in the green one. This is to ensure that bio-degradables are not
contaminated by recyclables and vice versa, which renders both categories
of waste useless.
The purpose of this segregation is to make the waste useful. While
the recyclable waste will be sold and processed to make new products
the bio-waste can be used for manures or fertilisers.
The urban development department has invested in a compost plant
to process the bio-degradable waste. |
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