Separate collection boxes for degradable & non-degradable waste

Hyderabad: The PIL Bench comprising Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Justice P V Sanjay Kumar on Monday issued directions to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to examine the possibility of providing separate collection boxes before multiple households separating biodegradable waste from non-biodegradable waste. Threading a very concerned path, Chief Justice pointed out how areas where there was no population earlier was now developed into pollutant areas and that the challenge was to meet the problem scientifically.

Recalling a proactive order made during his tenure at the Kolkata HC, he made broad-based suggestions for the civic authorities to examine and implement. He even said that members of the household be called out through a whistle and the waste be collected on a regular basis. He pointed out that while biodegradable waste could be recycled as fuel, etc., the non-biodegradable waster would have to be appropriately treated and recycled. The bench was dealing with writ pleas filed by Rajesh and others questioning the action of the civic authorities in dumping animal carcass in the surroundings near Bandlaguda and to declare the inaction of the respondents in shifting the Garbage Dumping Yard in spite of several representations as illegal, arbitrary and unjust.