Trichy: Frequently besieged by complaints about clandestine littering of water bodies and vacant plots with poultry and other animal waste, Trichy corporation has initiated a proposal to collect waste from meat stalls separately and recycle it. Private waste management organisations have expressed interest in collecting, transporting and recycling or reusing poultry waste from stalls across the 65 wards here. No additional charge is to be levied from the stalls under the new system.
There are around 1,200 meat stalls in the city with each ward having at least 20 of them. So far, the urban local body has been collecting poultry waste from the shops. Stall owners say about 250 grams to 350 grams per kilogram of chicken sold remains unsaleable and has to be dumped as waste. A section of stalls which miss the waste collection vehicle frequently dump the unsold waste on the banks of water bodies and vacant land. Mannarpuram junction, Uyyakondan bridge on Vayalur road and Manjathidal bridge in Kattur often bear the brunt, posing sanitary problems for locals nearby. Trichy corporation has requested interested waste management organisations to take care of the waste generated by poultry stalls. The organisation will also be permitted to pick up poultry waste from 31 micro compost centres (MCC) across the city.
“We will convene a meeting between poultry stall owners and the firm to streamline waste management. The civic body is not investing anything in the project,” S Sivasubramanian, commissioner, Trichy corporation, said. Sources said private agencies are willing to collect chicken waste and process them to use as feed in fish farms. Once the new waste management system is implemented by identifying a recycling firm, those still caught polluting vacant spaces with poultry waste are to be penalised heavily.
