Adityapur civic body plans 50 compost pits in a few months

Jamshedpur: The Adityapur Municipal Corporation (AMC) will construct 50 compost pits for proper waste disposal in the next few months. The civic body has identified the sites in the 32 wards and market areas, officials said on Monday.
The city manager of AMC, Nikhil Kiran, said, “The government has approved the proposal. We will start the project as soon as the government releases Rs 25 lakh fund. The pits would help the municipal body address the wet waste problem.”
With a population of 2.75 lakh, Adityapur town produces 35,000 tonnes of waste on a daily basis, most of which is wet waste.
The horticulture experts in the civic body are calculating how the proposed pits could be utilised to generate manure under the theme of Swachh Survekshan 2022, ‘Wealth from Waste’, of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban 2.0). The manure would be sold to farmers at a nominal cost, he added.
Recently, the municipal body replaced bins with door-to-door garbage collection. It took the step after it found that the residents were not dumping the waste in the bin, but throwing it towards the bin from a distance, thereby scattering the waste in the vicinity of the bins.
The AMC aims to improve its national ranking during the Swachh Survekshan 2022. Keeping in tune with the philosophy of the Swachh Survekshan, it is focussing on the principles of 3R (reduce, reuse, and recycle).