Plastic recycling plant for Kozhikode.
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From: Ramesh Jalan <ramesh...@one.un.org>
Date: 11 March 2013 14:53
Subject: [se-clmt] FOR INFO: Plastic recycling plant for Kozhikode.
To: "Climate Change Community (se-...@solutionexchange-un.net.in)" <se-...@solutionexchange-un.net.in>
Moderator’s note: Dear Members, We are pleased to share the highlights of “Plastic recycling plant for Kozhikode”. The mounting plastic waste menace in the city has a solution at sight with the opening of the plastic recycling plant set up by the Kozhikode Corporation. The recycling facility, set up at West Hill Industrial Estate will help convert one tonne of plastic waste into granules and pellets per day, thereby helping the city address its plastic waste woes.
Dear Members,
We are pleased to share the highlights of “Plastic recycling plant for Kozhikode”. The article is available at: http://www.eai.in/360/news/pages/8998 .
ü The plant has been set up under the solid waste treatment project at a cost of Rs 62 lakh. With the commissioning of the project, Kozhikode will become the first corporation in the state to set up a plastic recycling plant.
ü Corporation Mayor A K Premajam told the media that that despite the awareness programme and curbs currently in place on the use of plastic, the plastic waste menace has been on the rise in the city.
ü "The absence of a proper facility to recycle plastic has been a major obstacle in achieving our goal of a plastic waste free city.
ü With the opening of the plastic recycling plant, we hope to resume the collection of plastic wastes from the homes through the Kudumbasree network," she said.
ü The Kudumbasree volunteers had stopped collecting plastic wastes long ago due to lack of recycling facilities, leaving piles of plastic wastes across the city. Though the plant was ready for operations months ago, the delays in getting electricity connection and issues with disposal of the huge pile of plastic waste dumped at the plant site had delayed its inauguration.
ü However, only clean plastic can be recycled in the plant and urged the residents to adopt the practice of proper segregation of wastes at the households.
ü Kudumbasree workers will not collect plastic bags or wastes soiled with remains of food or other items.
ü The workers will be paid Rs 4 for every kg of plastic waste they deliver at the plant. The plastic granules and pellets produced at the plant will be sold to various plastic product manufacturers.
ü The corporation has granted the licence for running the recycling plant for three years to a private contractor, who will pay Rs 3.21 lakh as licence fee each year.
ü A housewife at Gandhi Road, said that the though the setting up of the recycling plant was a welcome step, the corporation should streamline the collection of plastic waste by introducing colour-coded waste bins and strictly enforce the ban on below 40 micron plastic bags to make the city free from plastic waste.
Thanks and regards,
Ramesh
Kumar Jalan, Ph.D.
Resource Person & Moderator
Climate Change Community, Solution Exchange,
United Nations Development Programme
55, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003, India
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NehaFor the total development of the human being, solitude as a means of cultivating sensitivity becomes a necessity. One has to know what it means to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the implications of solitude, of meditation, of death, can be known only by seeking them out. These implications cannot be taught, they must be learned. ~Krishnamurti
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From: Ramesh Jalan <ramesh...@one.un.org>
Date: 11 March 2013 14:53
Subject: [se-clmt] FOR INFO: Plastic recycling plant for Kozhikode.
To: "Climate Change Community (se-...@solutionexchange-un.net.in)" <se-...@solutionexchange-un.net.in>
Moderator’s note: Dear Members, We are pleased to share the highlights of “Plastic recycling plant for Kozhikode”. The mounting plastic waste menace in the city has a solution at sight with the opening of the plastic recycling plant set up by the Kozhikode Corporation. The recycling facility, set up at West Hill Industrial Estate will help convert one tonne of plastic waste into granules and pellets per day, thereby helping the city address its plastic waste woes.
Dear Members,
We are pleased to share the highlights of “Plastic recycling plant for Kozhikode”. The article is available at: http://www.eai.in/360/news/pages/8998 .
ü The plant has been set up under the solid waste treatment project at a cost of Rs 62 lakh. With the commissioning of the project, Kozhikode will become the first corporation in the state to set up a plastic recycling plant.
ü Corporation Mayor A K Premajam told the media that that despite the awareness programme and curbs currently in place on the use of plastic, the plastic waste menace has been on the rise in the city.
ü "The absence of a proper facility to recycle plastic has been a major obstacle in achieving our goal of a plastic waste free city.
ü With the opening of the plastic recycling plant, we hope to resume the collection of plastic wastes from the homes through the Kudumbasree network," she said.
ü The Kudumbasree volunteers had stopped collecting plastic wastes long ago due to lack of recycling facilities, leaving piles of plastic wastes across the city. Though the plant was ready for operations months ago, the delays in getting electricity connection and issues with disposal of the huge pile of plastic waste dumped at the plant site had delayed its inauguration.
ü However, only clean plastic can be recycled in the plant and urged the residents to adopt the practice of proper segregation of wastes at the households.
ü Kudumbasree workers will not collect plastic bags or wastes soiled with remains of food or other items.
ü The workers will be paid Rs 4 for every kg of plastic waste they deliver at the plant. The plastic granules and pellets produced at the plant will be sold to various plastic product manufacturers.
ü The corporation has granted the licence for running the recycling plant for three years to a private contractor, who will pay Rs 3.21 lakh as licence fee each year.
ü A housewife at Gandhi Road, said that the though the setting up of the recycling plant was a welcome step, the corporation should streamline the collection of plastic waste by introducing colour-coded waste bins and strictly enforce the ban on below 40 micron plastic bags to make the city free from plastic waste.
Thanks and regards,
<image001.gif>Ramesh Kumar Jalan, Ph.D.
Resource Person & Moderator
Climate Change Community, Solution Exchange,
United Nations Development Programme
55, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003, India
Tel: +91-11-46532383 Fax: +91-11-24627612
www.solutionexchange-un.net.in
This is a posting from the Solution Exchange Climate Change Community facilitated by UNDP-India
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