MCC launches awareness campaign ‘My waste, my responsibility’
Promotes Home Composting in Aatamnirbhar Ward
Chandigarh, January 4:- The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh on Tuesday launched a awareness campaign on ‘Home Composting’ and ‘Segregation of Waste at Source level’ to encourage residents to take up the ‘My waste, my responsibility’ concept involving recycling of biodegradable waste into manure.
The awareness campaign has been launched at Aatamnirbhar Ward comprising areas Sector 29 and Industrial area besides Sanjay colony.
Following the instructions of Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh the team led by SBM brand ambassador Ms. Kajal Mangalmukhi encouraged citizens to participate in home composting of waste produced in their respective households.
The home composting campaign involves door-to-door canvassing among residents to implement viable waste recycling methods like onsite composting pits and composting in buckets etc. Besides this Eco-friendly methods to recycle waste within households were explained to residents.
Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, MCC said that instead of conducting awareness meetings in closed halls, the MCC has planned to meet residents in streets and encourage them to help the MCC in containing waste generated daily and dispose off wet waste at their own level through home composting.
She said that with the enthusiasm of local residents, ward no. 20 strives to be an Aatamnirbhar ward. 100% wet waste will be processed within the ward and 100% dry waste sent to Material Recovery Facility Station located at the same ward.
