Hyderabad To Practice Dry-Wet Waste Segregation Soon

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), with the help of some big corporate sectors, will soon emulate the process of segregating garbage right from households, which is being followed in several global cities.

The GHMC is supposedly the first civic body in the nation taking up such a scheme involving corporate sectors under corporate social responsibility, to ensure effective implementation of separation of dry and wet waste.

As per the GHMC, the WOW initiative (Wellbeing Out of Waste) is aimed at improving living standards in the twin cities by creating a pollution-free environment, and also inculcating the habit of source segregation of waste into wet and dry among citizens.

To achieve this, the GHMC is going to convene a meeting on segregation methods along with celebrities including Sachin Tendulkar, Nizamabad MP K Kavitha, P V Sindhu, P Gopichand, V V S Laxman, S Ashok Teja, cine actor Ram, Manchu Laxmi, Tamanna and several others.

The program will be taken up under the guidance of Minister K T Rama Rao on Friday at the L B Stadium around 3 pm, where the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, MPs, MLAs, MLCs, corporators, ward members, public representatives, NGOs, residential welfare associations, corporate giants and various educational institutions will participate in the awareness program.

To ensure successful the implementation of WOW, the GHMC conducted the program in the following manner - a door-to-door campaign by resource persons and executives to create awareness among people about the concept of source segregation and separating plastic and biodegradable waste at households and explaining its benefits, was taken up. Resource persons demonstrated the segregation, and each house hold was given a flyer and a bag to collect the recyclables. Follow ups were done twice to ensure that the households practiced source segregation.