Thiruvananthapuram: City Corporation will call for the expression of interest (EOI) from mass waste collectors as part of designing the income generation model for biodegradable waste in dry waste.
Corporate health wings are waiting for a nod from the council to the proposal to sweep money from the collection and transportation of around 11 types of dried waste.
Draft Eoi has been completed and is expected to be issued within two weeks.
PET and hard plastic bottles, two main components of non-biodegradable waste in the city, will take the corporation of Rs 15 and Rs 13 per kilogram each.
Color plastic, rubber and coconut shell are other items where the corporation will receive money from the company for transportation.
The most common plastic waste is discarded; The milk cover will get a RS 13 per kg corporation when carrying a bag will be transported at Rs 7 per kg.
Oil blankets, white plastic cover and paper waste are other types of dry waste which will now make money for collection and transportation.
Similar generation models are aligned to collect biodegradable waste from households.
Civic’s body, although some efforts have not been able to take concrete steps to identify land to establish centralized care facilities even though the board session has given approval for centralized facilities.
Twenty-eight pork farm owners in the district recently formed collectively.
City Corporation plans to call for EOI from interested parties who can collect biodegradable waste every day with a certain level of city limits.
In addition to pig pig owners, those who need it for the purpose of fertilizer is also being considered.
Meanwhile, the civil body slowly increases the flow of household waste into aerobic waste which is established in a different environment.
Health wings have been categorized as waste under group A, B, C and D based on the daily volume of waste received from households.
Officials said that in the past three months, many trash cans in the D category can be shifted to the category after the waste flow of households increases.
Door-to-door waste collection has continued on three wards based on experiments in the city.
Seven wards will be added to this system again.
As per the plan, Haritha Karma Sena will be used for the collection of waste and waste will be transported to the pointing points from which the bulk waste collector will receive waste.
The new council meeting was held to see the heated debate on the cost borne by City Corporation for waste management.
The BJP Board said that the corporation spent Rs 150 Crore in 10 years for waste management but no results visible on the ground.
Corporate officials maintain that even without centralized factories, corporations have been able to manage 70% of waste produced in the city and for it is only a reasonable investment that needs to be done every year.
“With the income generating model it becomes a reality for wet waste, each deficit in income and expenditure can be disbelievably,” an official said.