Mysuru: The Hootagalli City Municipal Council (CMC), which manages civic issues for residents located on the outskirts of the city, will establish a dry waste processing plant near Hinakal. This project, costing Rs 1 crore, aims to manage its daily plastic waste, which is currently handled by MCC.
Though the CMC generates 40 tons of waste daily, it struggles to handle nearly 20 tons of dry waste, such as plastic covers and other plastic materials, it generates daily. Currently, it processes nearly 20 tons of wet and other solid waste, excluding dry waste like plastic covers, in its waste treatment plant set up on two acres near Koorgalli under its limits.
The areas of Hootagalli CMC, which comprise 35 layouts with a population of 70,000, including four industrial areas like Belavadi, Koorgalli, Hootagalli, and Hebbal, generate about 40 tons of waste daily. Another 100 private layouts are also coming up under its limits. As the areas of Hootagalli CMC steadily extend with an increasing population, it results in an increase in garbage collection. This may also increase as the areas of CMC expand daily, posing challenges to civic authorities in dealing with dry waste.
Speaking to TOI, Hootagalli CMC commissioner BN Chandrashekhar said the city civic body, which has been struggling to deal with dry waste, will set up a dry waste processing plant. It also pays Rs 2 lakh every month to MCC to handle 20 tons of dry waste generated within its limits. The establishment of the dry waste processing plant, planned at the cost of Rs 1 crore near Hinakal, will not only help save Rs 24 lakh in charges paid to MCC to handle dry waste. CMC will soon start the work, he said.
"As Hootagalli CMC now plans to set up its own dry waste processing plant under its limits, it will help the CMC become independent in handling this dry waste," said Ravikumar, a resident of Belavadi.