New Delhi: The brand ambassadors of South Delhi Municipal Corporation for sanitation, Geeta Phogat and Babita Phogat, have taken up the job to teach residents the value of waste segregation and how it can make their areas cleaner.
The sisters launched a campaign titled ‘Let’s Go Green and Blue’ in SDMC’s west zone on Thursday to promote proper segregation of the waste to help in the disposal and re-use of waste through recycling. From here, the campaign will be taken to other zones.
Lack of awareness about waste segregation is the reason why Delhi has air polluting landfills on its outskirts. Delhi everyday generates around 9,000 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste. Of this, SDMC generates over 3,000 tonnes of waste, largest among the three corporations. Whatever little consciousness about sorting of waste exists is confined to a couple of households only. Since they are unsegregated, most of the municipal solid waste goes to landfill sites. The waste disposal machines are designed to handle segregated waste only, but the residents do not know it.
Geeta and Babita Phogat made people at a mall pledge that they will never mix wet and dry waste. “You should concentrate on the segregation of waste, especially kitchen waste. Only after segregation the waste becomes useful and it can be recycled,” said Geeta Phogat.
“After it is segregated, we can use the green waste to make compost while the dry waste can be recycled or used to generate electricity from waste. It is not possible when the waste is not segregated at the household level,” said an official. Though rag pickers segregate some amount of waste to collect recyclable products from it, it is not possible to segregate dry and wet waste after it is mixed.
Bureau Report
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