Municipal Bodies should go for Sanitary Land Fills instead of Dumping Grounds, CoRWA

Press Release 

On 20 May 2018, at A-2/302, Laram Centre, SV Road, Andheri (West), a meeting of the National Council of CoRWA was convened  to give a call to create ‘SANITARY LAND FILLS’  instead of Dumping Grounds. “ We should do composting. We should recycle the waste. We should segregate the waste in to bio-degradable and non-biodegradable right at the source. These are all evolutionary practices. People will take a very long time to understand them because we had to carry out extensive publicity to teach people that defecation in the open is not good. Therefore, some measures have to be taken immediately. Delhi and Mumbai have burnt their hands by creating dumping grounds which have now become dumping hills. Because of pressure and temperature, the waste dumps produce methane which is inflammable. Hence frequent  fires in the waste dumps are becoming unmanageable. Let us create number of “Sanitary Land Fills”- big ditches in the LMC grounds of the urban civic bodies ; fill these ditches with waste, compact, cover them with mud on the top and plant grass and trees thereafter once they are saturated. No land is wasted in this exercise. However, it is a continuous process.

It was also decided in the meeting of the National Council that Municipal Corporations will be approached to issue Municipal Bonds for rapid development of the Cities.

Col Tejandra Pal Tyagi, Convener, CoRWA