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Covid waste: By heaps and bounds
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The pandemic has stretched waste management to its limit
Besides immensely taxing the healthcare system, Covid-19 has brought enormous challenges in handling the mountain of biomedical waste generated each day.
Says Masood Mallick, Joint Managing Director of Hyderabad-based Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL), India’s largest environment services company: “India generates 600 tonnes per day of non-Covid-19 biomedical waste, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). This almost increased by over 50 per cent by May 2021, as a result of the pandemic.”
Hyderabad stinks up as garbage remains uncleared
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Ploy to privatise garbage transportation, allege workers
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Ploy to privatise garbage transportation, allege workers
Unresolved issues of garbage clearance between the GHMC authorities and labourers are set to stink up the city, the tremors of which are already being felt across various locations.
On Thursday, despite it being a festival day, trash mounds were found uncleared at several spots, which had the residents wincing and complaining. The garbage got accumulated at locations where the trademark blue bins of GHMC had existed earlier.
The bins have been removed recently, but the waste kept accumulating at the locations due to lack of any alternative system to collect garbage. Several social media users complained of uncleared garbage, and questioned the GHMC’s decision to remove the bins without making alternative arrangements.
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Services of hired vehicles had been stopped due to termination of contract
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Intending to hand over garbage transportation to Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited, GHMC had refrained from extending the agreement with operators of hired vehicles.
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Services of hired vehicles had been stopped due to termination of contract
After a day’s uncertainty, garbage lifting has resumed from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC)’s transfer stations through hired vehicles whose services were stopped on Friday owing to termination of contract.
Contractors of hired vehicles have been reportedly asked by the GHMC’s Transport wing officials to resume operations, pending extension of agreement with them. “They have said nothing about extension of agreement, but merely asked us to resume operations. We have started plying vehicles upon oral commitment by the officials that it was GHMC’s responsibility to pay us