The Scenario at the Municipal Waste Management Facility – Coonoor, & the need for Intervention
(2015-2019)
The Scenario
- Around 13 MT of Municipal Solid Waste openly dumped on a daily basis at the area earmarked for a Waste Management Facility.
- Inappropriate SOPs
- Delay in execution of establishing a Resource Recovery Centre.
- Disposal of waste dependent on rag pickers and itinerant scrap dealers.
- A resultant pileup of 12,000 cu.ft. of unprocessed waste.
- Micro-composting Centre of inadequate handling capacity and ill sited
The Consequences
- Loss of resources.
- Breeding of vectors, contamination of ground water, emission of greenhouse gasses
- Escape of Plastics into watercourses
- Human-Wildlife Conflict
- Public outcry against the existing Micro-Composting Centre located in the heart of the town, with complaints rife about the stench and flies.
- Litigation at the National Green Tribunal Level