Measures the Corporation Is taking and planning to Take in Future

Besides this, the concerned authorities within VMC have shared the details regarding the current waste handling practices like community participation on ban on plastic use, awareness rallies that are conducted to address the information gaps and raise awareness amongst the citizens as well as other relevant staff within VMC. VMC has also promoted the distribution of cloth and jute bags by resident welfare associations and other volunteers to discourage the use of plastic bags in the city. In addition, the city has various waste recycling and material recovery facilities at different places within the city and depicted in the following pictures. The VMC has established the construction debris processing plant at Ajith Singh Nagar in November 2018. The plant is being jointly operated by Pro Enviro C&D Waste Management Company and the VMC. The capacity of the unit is about 200 tonnes and it processes nearly 70 tonnes of debris every day. The debris is processed into 40 mm, 20 mm and 6 mm metal filling sand and is used directly for construction as a fill material and also in manufacture of downstream products like RMC, bricks, blocks, tiles, pavers, etc. Though there are many treatment plants and processing units going in many ways to recover the waste as far as possible still there are some amounts of waste left out and being disposed to the site. In this regard, a detailed segregation of waste into categories like paper, ceramics, glass, etc. would help in recovering & recycling the wastes in a larger way leading to a greater revenue generation also.

Measures the Corporation Is taking and planning to Take in Future

VMC intends to provide a holistic waste management service to the citizens of Vijayawada city. The city is able to achieve the desired objectives to some extent by introducing various initiatives like collection efficiency, use of multiple technologies and providing a green and clean city to its citizens. There still are certain bottlenecks which the city target to eradicate by use of advance technologies, ensuring public participation and raising awareness amongst the public. The city intends to establish a Material Recovery Facility at the landfill including a ballistic separator, belt conveyors, air separator, manual sorting conveyors, feeding hopper, magnetic separator, etc. The civic body has also decided to renovate the bio methanation plant at Ajith Singh Nagar and set up a new one at Jakkampudi. To streamline the existing system, VMC is planning to improve doorto-door segregation across the city and make Vijayawada garbage free. In addition, the civic body is analyzing all possibilities to enforce SWM practices through an Online Waste Management System (OWMS)- Internet of Things (IoT) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools. The city government is also in discussion with various bulk waste generators with a daily waste generation of 5 tons or more to treat their own waste by way of installing on-site composting plant where the technical support will be provided by VMC. Establishments like housing societies, big hotels, hospitals, commercial markets, industrial sites etc. fall in this category. Recently, an agency has been empaneled to segregate garbage from bulk waste generators such as marriage halls, convention centers and hotels21. Some bulk waste generators have already started decentralized composting at Suryarao peta in Benz circle area of Vijayawada city. Finally, the city intends to adopt