Segregation of solid waste into its two basic components...wet waste and dry waste has to be SOLELY done by the waste producer [domestic, commercial or industrial] at his/her place of waste-production. If the waste producer has no time or no inclination to segregate the garbage, he should pay his 'waste collector' an extra fee per month for doing this work.
It is the duty of every 'wet-waste' producer to ensure that the wet waste is SPEEDILY taken to the LPC; from there it is transported by feeder/RTR buses in green colored containers to the PSWMS for vermi-composting under tree shade.
SORTING of the dry waste has to be done by the waste collector [ragpicker] at his residence or some other place of his choice. Sorting is not allowed to be done in public places [roads].
Dry waste is removed from the waste-producer by the waste collector after paying for the commercial component of the waste. By commercial component is meant that part of dry waste which has a resale value and would be used for reusing or recycling purposes. Dry waste need not be cleared every day but upon the convenience of the waste collector. However, should the waste collector desire to have his dry waste removed urgently from his premises, he should call up his waste collector and request him to do so. One should add his waste collector's mobile number to his store of service-renders [family doctor, electrician, plumber, pizza-delivering joint etc.].
After collecting all his dry waste, the waste collector sorts out the commercial waste [CW] at his residence and takes it along with the non commercial waste to the LPC. There he sells the commercial waste but deposits the non commercial waste [NCW].
The end users of CW are identified and they or their agents are to come and take away their stock from the LPC after paying for the same. The vehicles used by them are depicted as "other vehicles' in the figure 1 of the LPC above. Such an arrangement enables one to pay a higher amount of money to the waste collectors who have to make their livelihood in this trade cum service.
NCW is either hazardous or non hazardous. Non hazardous dry waste is placed in blue containers and the hazardous dry waste is placed into brown containers. Both these containers are picked up from the LPC by the feeder buses and taken to the transfer station for the feeder area where RTR buses take and deposit these containers at the solid waste wall beyond the ORR. These wastes are then used as filling material in the construction of the solid waste wall.
The CLASSROOM of the LPC has a very important part to play: it is the meeting point for the rich and the poor, the high and the low, the educated and uneducated sections of public dwelling in that particular feeder area. Civic problems are discussed, solutions sought for, and are wisely dealt with. Emphasis is placed that all the people in that feeder area are educated with the three R's of solid waste management viz. REDUCTION, REUSE AND RECYCLING. Efforts are made to target manufacturers and industries and see that they also ensure that their products do not adversely affect the environment. Once a start is mode in this direction, the momentum will pick up and be self-sustaining. Starting a fire with unprepared wood is always tough, but once the fire picks up, one need not struggle too much to keep the fire going.
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