Project 3 D At Mansa To Abolish Secondary Garbage Points In City : Apneet Riyait

Deputy Commissioner Mansa Apneet Riyait today visited the Material Receiving Factory (MRF) near Bhai Gurdas Colony Chhappar wherein she interacted with the employees working at garbage segregation center being run under prestigious 3 D (dustbins) project being run in Mansa. Brainchild of the Deputy Commissioner Mansa Mrs Apneet Riyait is successfully creating awareness on garbage management right from the household level to taking it as profit making enterprise for people involved in it.She directed the officers to ensure that employees working on garbage segregation and collecting garbage from households have access to various civic amenities with special emphasis on availability of water and toilets.

District administration has started pilot project in ward number 20 and has now expanded to wards numbers 16, 17 and 18 in Mansa nagar council. People have been asked to put domestic garbage in three colored dustbins including white, green and red. The white dustbins hold refused eatables, green dustbins have biodegradable matter and red dustbins hold non-biodegradable matter. Leftover eatables of the white dustbins are collected by the Mansa Gaushala twice a day and fed to the cattle heads at the Mansa Gaushala on Water works Road.

The biodegradable content from the green dustbin has been collected into a pit especially constructed for it. At the MRF facility there are 12 pits of dimension 10 by 3 feet and 4 feet deep. One of the pits has already been filled with the biodegradable waste collected in past 15 days from the four wards and will produce up-to 5 to 7 tons of compost after 90 days. The contents of red dustbins (which have non-biodegradable garbage) are taken segregated into recyclable and non-recyclable categories.

The recyclable content is sold off to junk dealers, while non-recyclable waste is discarded away.She added that the project is running under 3 D Society Mansa that has employed four supervisors, 8 rehriwalas and four segregators by giving them direct employment. Besides this, the project collects user charges from residents of three wards and plans to collect money from selling recyclable waste and compost. Three more such segregation centers will come up in city on next two months.