Over 200 establishments sign up for sanitary waste management drive
The BMC will collect in yellow bags, segregated sanitary domestic waste ranging from sanitary napkins to razors and nails from establishments registered for the initiative.
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Of the 7,000 to 8,000 metric tonnes of waste generated in the city per day, nearly 70-80 metric tonnes of waste is accounted for by used sanitary products that are discarded without treatment. Over 200 housing societies, beauty parlours, women’s hostels and others have signed up for the first-of-its-kind domestic sanitary waste management drive that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to launch in the coming week.
Eyeing to safeguard sanitation workers’ health as well as improve waste management, the BMC will collect in yellow bags, segregated sanitary domestic waste ranging from sanitary napkins to razors and nails from establishments registered for the initiative.
“At present, we are in the process of providing training to some of the societies and beauty parlours pertaining to waste segregation. This will require 2 – 3 days more, following which we will begin our targeted collection of segregated sanitary waste items,” a senior civic official told The Indian Express.
Of the 7,000 to 8,000 metric tonnes of waste generated in the city per day, nearly 70-80 metric tonnes of waste is accounted for by used sanitary products that are discarded without treatment. These include items ranging from sanitary napkins, diapers, tampons, contaminated cotton, bandages, nails, gloves, needles, razors, waxing strips, etc.
The civic body is set to launch a drive for the collection of “domestic sanitary and special care waste”, for which registrations opened for housing societies and other businesses on March 22. Data furnished by the BMC shows that so far, at least 209 establishments have registered for the drive. Of these, 97 are housing complexes, followed by 96 beauty parlours, 12 educational institutions and four women’s hostels.
The BMC is eyeing to earmark one tempo each across the city’s seven zones, which will specially cater to this collection drive.
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