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Making a Clean Sweep of Urban Solid Waste Management

May 24, 2025

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The New Indian Express Kollam

The state's scheme or policy for waste management is a hybrid one that optimally integrates decentralised and centralised facilities.

atch the scale and the area. Over the area has been knit-em for managing and it is anchored philosophy of 'My responsibility'. About the management disposal of biodegradable waste and the of non-biodegradable materials into plastic, cloth, leather, etc. at the point of generation. The compost and generated has a role in proliferating gardening across the local bodies are collecting various non-biodegradable from all the generated through the Haritha Kena (HKS). They are transported to the collection Facility where they are further processed; the reusables are for upcycling and the recyclables are sent to respective facilities.

Available solid waste is converted into compost in the compost plants which can be used as fertilizer for gardening. The process-reject items end up in a hazardous landfill. The process-reject items above nodes are disposed in a scientific landfill. But, the state does not have such a facility. The action of waste management is comparatively less, which is a concern.

This is enshrined in the State's Policy for solid waste management (SWM) adopted in 2018.

This is enshrined in the State's Policy for solid waste management (SWM) adopted in 2018.

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