Less power cuts in Madurai promised - Recyclying plastic as Madurai Roads - Madurai Tourist places to look cleaner

Recycling plastic in Madurai as Madurai Roads:

Madurai city corporation has come out with a plan to recycle plastic and use it for laying roads in a bid to prevent the ill-effects of non-biodegradable plastic on the environment.

Madurai corporation commissioner A Nagarajan said that to start with, one of the roads stretching up to 3-km would be laid with plastic collected from solid waste disposed in the city. "Plastic will be mixed with bitumen to lay the road. This has been tried elsewhere in the state in the past. If it is found successful, we will lay plastic-based roads at more places in Madurai," he said.

Madurai to have less power cuts:

The Madurai city may soon witness a massive strengthening of electricity distribution network aimed at preventing loss of electricity.

"As per the plan, as many as 4638 transformers would be installed in Madurai in the next four years. In Melur, where we are going to commence the project first, we will install 130 more transformers," said a Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) official. Installation of the transformers at more places would reduce the length of low-tension power supply lines and ultimately transmission loss could be reduced, he added.

This is the promise of TNEB Madurai; Let us wait and see if that happens!!

Already plastics are banned in Madurai Tourist spots. Clean up Madurai Tourist spots to happen. Plastics are reused for Madurai roads - that is the plan. If Plastics are sold or used near Madurai around the tourist spots of Madurai, then there would be spot fine of Rs.300 for the incident!

Recylcing program in Madurai : T Kallupatti

T Kallupatti perooratchi in Madurai has initiated a Recycling program to all the houses in the constituency.

This is the first time the bio-degradable and non-biodegradable materials are going to be separated and recycled in Madurai. Two separate bags would be given to the houses in T Kallupatti for different kinds of recycling.

Prior to this, all the bio-degradable and non-biodegradable materials were dumped under same pit and closed under the ground. Isn't it a great initiative?

Next, place in Madurai to follow this would be vadipatti, it seems.

Our previous post regarding this Recylcing is here

Plastic Recycling in Madurai

Solid Waste Management and Plastic Recycle in Madurai

Even as a modernising India and every district like Madurai roars ahead, it is leaving a trail of plastic waste everywhere. Bottles, bags, buckets, shoes and garments are thrown away by the rich and the poor. Luckily, India has already exhausted that reflex reaction of shallow thinkers: ‘ban plastics!’ And even more luckily, some sober minds are focused on creative solutions to the problem. In terms of reclycling research - there are two initiatives which has come out of the labs.

Prof Vasudevan in Madurai, Tamil Nadu had proposed blending plastic waste with bitumen and rock aggregate used in paving roads. He said this improves bonding and make the roads survive the monsoons better. A small stretch of road was paved early this year to prove the concept. Now there is news that the practice may be spreading.

While that approach has to do with disposal, Alka Zadgaonkar’s is do with reuse. An academic and a researcher in Nagpur, she has gained a WIPO patent for her process to convert all manner of plastic wastes into petrochemicals. For eight years she and her husband Umesh have worked on perfecting the process. They then demonstrated it to many critical audiences. And now news comes that their doggedness may be paying off. Indian Oil Corporation [IOC] has signed a deal with her.

That apart - what is the measure done in Madurai for recylcing?
As "The Hindu" reports in June 2008, Average quantum of waste generated from each household is around 2.5 kg. Individually, nobody puts it into separate containers or places for recycling, like other developed nations do. In fact, the special rag pickers pick the plastics and recyclable wastes and get money for that from the organized recyclers.

A comprehensive solid waste management policy is on the anvil to halve the waste generated by houses in town panchayats by 2015, K. Gopal, Commissioner, Town Pachayats, has said.

The policy would be based on three R's: reduce, recycle and reuse. Awareness and training programmes would be conducted for stakeholders.

Each district would have at least one plastic recycle unit, he said. Residents would be encouraged to hand over non-degradable waste to these units through organised rag-pickers. We need to make it to one kg per household, instead of 2.5 kgs.

This is more of lack of awareness. Till date, there are many people who do not even know that there is a recylcing concept and also how harmful it is to the environment, if we ignore it. If you are interested, we wrote an article about clean and Green Madurai, sometime back.

After a little research online, Madurai Times bloggers(reporters) found out some recyclers. If you are a recycler and want to be listed, let us know at maduraitimes@gmail.com.

Madurai Metal Recycling , Estd. 2007, (Raja)
Importers of Waste Papers and Plastics.
Address: 69,Kamarajar Salai, East Gate,India,MADURAI,TamilNadu

Deepam Polymers & Chemicals
Munichalai Road, Madurai-625009

Sheila Sons
73, Abrami Street, Narayanapuram West,
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, 625 014.
Manufacturer / Supplier / Exporter of : medicinal Plants.,Plastic recycled materials.

SK Industries (Madurai)
Madurai TamilNadu
India