Nagpur: Satranjipura Zone residents produce more garbage compared to 9 other zones in the city.
Each household produces an average of 2.73kg of garbage per day, which data was disclosed obtained from the Solid Waste Management Department Corporation Nagpur Corporation.
In accordance with data from Indian BVG, which has been entrusted to collecting door-to-door waste, the Satranjipura zone has 49,600 property owners.
Every day, the company collects around 135,889 metric tons (MT) of garbage from this owner (both housing and commercial).
Data collection of garbage door-to-door for June 2021 shows that both Indian BVG and AG direct around 1,282.809mt waste density every day to the Dumping Bandewadi NMC page.
During the covid inaugable locking, the city is used to produce around 1,000 million garbage per day and with the opening of commercial companies, city solid waste witnesses an increase of almost 250mt per day.
A senior official from the NMC solid waste management department admitted that with the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, the making of city waste has increased slightly.
Of the 10 zones, the highest amount of waste was produced by Laxmi Nagar Zone.
This zone accounts for 164.419MT trash per day.
The owner of the property under the Dharampeth zone stands third when it comes to producing solid per capita waste.
Here, 65,453 residents and commercial shop owners together produce 2.42kg of trash each, which reaches around 1,58,685kg per day.
Residents of Dhantoli Zone, are considered the Central Nagpur Medical Center, also contributing large amounts of garbage.
Here, 46,269 property owners produce 1.08,600kg garbage, which means that one property owner produces 2.34kg waste per day.
Residents of Ashi Nagar, Zone Nagar Hanuman and Hanuman produce lower waste compared to others.
In accordance with data, 80,925 houses in the Ashi Nagar zone produce solid waste of 1,34,443kg and each family throws around 1.23 kg of garbage per day.
Similarly, 1.42kg waste per day per family produced from the lakadganj zone and 1.56kg per day per family from the Hanuman Nagar zone.
Green Activists and Founders of the Green Vigil Foundation NGO Kaustav Chatterjee said in Indian cities, at the average generation of solid per capita waste varies from 0.4 to 0.6 kg per day.
“Collectively, it becomes a significant volume.
However, the generation of waste per capita can be significantly reduced if we change the process of our thinking.
In the world today, we are very likely to go to packaged items, which produce many solid waste including plastic and Thermocol, “he said.
“Unfortunately, we are too focused on unnecessary packaging, which is converted to solid waste in several hours.
Online shopping that has improved manifolds during the Covid-19 pandemic adding to the generation of household waste.
The recent increase in the trend of ordering food online also produces Many waste, most plastic use.
Plastic ban has passed, resulting in a single plastic increase in household solid waste, “he added.