SLMC terms waste management at Kalamassery ‘deplorable’
The Hindu
Dumping yard not eligible for PCB consent for operation, says report
The State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) on Solid Waste Management has said that it would be an absolute folly on the part of the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) to give consent to the Kalamassery Municipality to operate its dumping yard located at an ecologically-sensitive area in North Kalamassery.
SLMC Chairman A.V. Ramakrishna Pillai made this observation in his report submitted before the Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on the major fire at the site on January 18.
Terming waste management by the municipality as “deplorable”, Mr. Pillai pointed out that it was likely to continue in the future, unless stringent actions were taken against those responsible. Spread over five acres near the national highway between Ernakulam and Aluva, the dumping yard has heaps of unsegregated plastic waste. Nearly 50% of waste got burnt in the inferno on January 18.
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