MCC procures dry waste for money

In an effort to ensure scientific disposal of dry waste, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has come up with a new idea of procuring the waste from households of the city, for a price.

The civic body, along with Wellbeing Out of Waste (WOW), a CSR initiative of ITC, will procure dry waste, including newspaper, bottles, and aluminium, tin, beer and liquor bottles, milk packets among others for money.

Initially, procuring is launched as pilot project at Zone-2 and several people sold their waste and collected money from the authorities concerned.

An officer said, “The new initiative has multiple-ideas and is implemented to encourage people not to dispose of dry waste unscientifically. Despite several rounds of awareness campaigns, many residents fail to separate dry and wet waste and the new initiative would help for proper segregation.”

While Rs 10 is fixed for old newspaper, Rs 14 to 15 will be given for pet bottles and hard plastic. In addition, Rs 2 will be given for beer bottles. An officer said that the initiative will be extended to all nine zones in the city, shortly.