600 houses get 'Thank You' note for dividing waste

BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Sunday pasted "Thank You" stickers in front of more than 600 houses in appreciation of their steps to segregate waste before handing over garbage to sanitation workers.
On the first day of the drive, the BMC pasted stickers in 600 houses, 200 in each of the three zones, as part of the citizen connect initiative meant to encourage people to segregate waste at their homes.
The drive was conducted at Badagada Brit colony, near the police station under south east zone, Soubhagya Nagar Bank colony under south west zone and at Gajapati Nagar in ward no 12 under north zone. Three types of stickers have been developed by the urban local body that distinguish households on the basis of giving segregated waste to the waste collection vehicles of the BMC.
Households giving segregated waste were thanked with a green sticker pasted in front of their house.
The civic body pasted orange stickers on the houses which gave mixed garbage and requested the residents to segregate waste at the source.
Some families who throw garbage outside were appealed to deposit their waste in a segregated manner to the sanitation workers in the morning.
The BMC will put red stickers outside their houses, official sources said.
There are 23 micro composting centres (MCCs) covering around 36 wards of the BMC.
The wet waste collected from houses are being used to create compost in these centres. There is a plan to increase their number to 41. After this, all wards of the civic body will be covered under this initiative.
The BMC has asked residents to segregate dry and wet waste at their homes. The wet waste is taken to the micro composting centres and dry garbage is processed at the material recovery facilities.
The city has 24 material recovery facilities, but only eight of these are functioning.