 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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