Tiruchy's 'Wall of Happiness' working for cement factories?

CLOTHES deposited by the public at the Tiruchy corporation's lone Wall of Happiness (WOH) may not actually be completely used by the needy as doubts have emerged that they are instead being bundled off to cement factories where they are used to keep their furnaces burning.

- JOSE K JOSEPH

This, despite the facility set up in front of the civic body's K Abishekapuram zonal office.

TNIE recently found a few men, who identified themselves as working under the corporation's supervision, bundling up clothes collected at the Wall of Happiness shelves, into a load vehicle. When enquired, they said that the clothes were being sent off to the corporation's composting unit in Ariyamangalam. From there, they would be sent off to the cement factories for use in their furnaces, they added.

When enquired, the groundlevel staff concerned, who manage the city's solid waste management, claimed that the donated clothes sent off to cement factories are those that are damaged beyond use.