Kotte Solid Waste Management Strategy

• In collaboration with the Department of agriculture, The Council will also help set upan Eco-cooperative of rag-pickers to market compost and other waste-borne products.• The formation of Eco-cooperatives of rag-pickers and other unemployed youth willbe encouraged and supported by the Municipal Council buy excess compost from thehouseholds and suitably package and market it.• Though the CBOs, the Council will encourage the residents with adequate land spaceto do home gardening. Composting organic waste could then become and importantinput as growing media or soil conditioner.Research in to anaerobic digestion• Small scale anaerobic digestion will be promoted as a means of waste managementatschool premises, child care institiutions and elders homes etc.• Mechanisms will be created to collect source-separated organic waste from markets,hotels, restaurants and send it through a biomethanation process to produce methanerichbiogas energy.• The Municipal Council will explore possibilities of introducing bio-gas that permitdaily intake of market waste in large quantities. Designs that can produce saleableliquid gas in marketable cylinders will be explored keeping in view the costs andtechnical viability.• It will also encourage private sector collaborations to establish a chain of bio-gas andcomposting centres to turn waste into usable products and thus into money.• The Council will explore possibilities of introducing small-scale domestic bio-gasunits that can treat kitchen waste and toilet waste simultaneously.Scientific handling of clinical, chemical and hazardous waste• The producers of bio-medical (explained in Annex 1) and other hazardous waste thatcan threaten public health will be made primarily responsible for disposing suchwaste under the supervision and care of the municipal authorities. For this, specialguidelines will be issued by the Council following the norms issued for the same bythe Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environment. Central Government. Biomedicaland pathological waste including body parts of humans will be disposed ofthrough methods that conform to safety standards stipulated by the government andwill be incinerated under Council supervision.• The Council will insist on placing special containers at sorting stations, recyclablescollecting centers or other public places for the deposit of hazardous waste