NGT’s Regional Monitoring Committee takes stock of Trichy’s waste collection practice

TRICHY: Members of the Regional Monitoring Committee (South) of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) took stock of the waste collection practices in Trichy, which is hailed as a role model city in solid waste management practices in Tamil Nadu.
A team of 16 officials including the chairperson of Regional Monitoring Committee (South) Justice P Jyothimani and senior IAS officials from Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana states and Union territories of Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep inspected Trichy’s solid waste management practices.

The team first inspected a micro compost centre in Kulimikkarai road where biodegradable waste is converted into manure while non-biodegradable waste is segregated and sold to scrap dealers. By doing so, waste is prevented from being accumulated in dump yards.

Later, the team inspected the quick response (QR) code-enabled waste collection process in Thillai Nagar area where supervisors would scan the unique QR code given to each house for digitally recording the houses that were covered under door-to-door waste collection, thus ensuring complete coverage in waste collection.

Senior officials said the success model of Trichy could be emulated in other south Indian states.