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World Bank Supports Chennai’s Sustainable Waste Management

Goals

he Greater Chennai Corpo- World Bank’s Role and Study The main goal of these changes is to
ration (GCC), with help from It is planned that the World Bank will create a circular economy that has less
the World Bank, wants to improve the city’s solid waste man- of an effect on the world and uses few-
improve the way it handles agement methods over the next 20 er resources. The project also looks
trash so that it can set up a system years, not just in Chennai but all over at administrative problems, like hiring
that will last until 2026 or 2027. These the state. A big part of this project is a levels, that get in the way of good city
attempts are mostly about stopping full study that will look at how garbage management in all 15 zones of Chen-
people from throwing trash at Kodun- is currently handled and come up with nai. GCC wants to improve general civ-
gaiyur, which is a big dump in the city. ic response and efficiency by tackling
ideas for how the city’s waste manage-
Strategic Meetings and Goals ment policies could be improved. these basic problems. This will help
make waste management even better.
A recent meeting between the World Implementation of Recycling and Overall, these joint efforts by the World
Bank, the GCC, and state officials Waste Reduction Strategies Bank and Greater Chennai Corporation
ended with a detailed talk of how to After the study is over, the GCC will put show that they are serious about turn-
make solid waste management more in place a number of new rules that will ing Chennai into a model of environ-
strategic. Setting Zero Waste as the aim to boost recycling and cut down on mentally friendly trash management.
main goal and finally stopping the use waste sent to landfills. Some of these
of another major dumpsite, Perungudi, are changes to the law that the Chennai Source - GKTODAY
after the success at Kodungaiyur is the Corporation Council should pass soon.
main goal.

Canon enters plastics sorting sector

apanese multinational Can- tain molecular information of the sub- to effectively sort all the pieces regard-
on has become a manu- stance, thereby enabling the material less of their colours at recycling plants.
facturer of plastic sorting detection. By combining Raman spectroscopy
equipment using material Market entry with Canon’s measurement and con-
identification technology. trol equipment, the company has de-
‘With the launch of this product, Canon
The company is now accepting orders marks its entry into the recycling sys- veloped a technology which scans la-
from the market for its TR Series which tem market in an aim to build a circular ser light toward the pieces, ensuring
has been kicked off by the TR-S1510. sufficient measurement time for each
economy by maximising material recy-
The new product employs a propri- cling,’ says a news release. piece of plastic regardless of its colour.
etary tracking Raman spectroscopic However, due to the limited amount of The product maintains a conveyor
method to sort plastic pieces regard- reflection by black plastic pieces, the speed of 1.5 metres per second and
less of their colours, including black. measurement time is too long relative can sort up to one tonne of plastic per
Raman spectroscopy utilises laser to the speed and throughput required hour.
light to illuminate plastic pieces to ob-

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