Srinagar, July 23: The Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in Kashmir have made functional nine waste treatment units in 10 municipalities, where all the waste is properly processed in a scientific way through various machines installed in the solid waste management centres.
Director, Urban Local Bodies of Kashmir, Mathoora Masoom, told Rising Kashmir that the ULBs have started nine solid waste management centres in 10 municipal committees of the valley where all kinds of machines have been installed. The solid waste is properly processed through various machines in a scientific way that is also pollution-free and environment-friendly, she said.
“The waste that is generated on a daily basis in the municipal committees is getting properly processed through these machines, where the wet waste will be decomposed into vermicompost,” Masoom said.
She said the plastic waste will be separated from the other waste, and this waste can be sold to the rack pickers. “The municipal committees can generate a good source of revenue from the plastic waste generated from municipality areas,” she said.
We are going to send the samples of the vericompost for testing purposes to know the quality that has been decomposed in these nine units of the solid waste management centres, the Director ULB said, adding, “We are going to distribute this vermicompost to the local people free of charge who are living in these municipality areas.”
Mathoora said there are 40 municipal committees in the Kashmir Division, of which 10 have proper waste management centres. “We are going to construct waste management centres in the other 30 municipal committees of the valley till the next financial year, 2024,” she said, adding, “The Government of India has approved all the solid waste management centres for all the municipal committees of the Kashmir Division.”
