All hotels and commercial establishments should have appropriate double bins for waste disposal.
What’s it about? The Corporation will begin enforcing a rule that all hotels and commercial establishments should have double bins to segregate bio-degradable and non-biodegradable waste. If not, they’ll be fined by the sanitary staff under the 2019 Solid Waste Management Rules. There are more than 94,000 shops of various sizes in the corporation area.
- The two-bin system is being done to ensure cleanliness and encourage people not to dump garbage in public. So far, the Corporation has imposed ₹2 lakh worth of fines.
- There’ll be litter-free corridors identified by the Corporation. They are Ambattur High road, Elliot’s beach road, and Rajiv Gandhi Salai, to name a few.
Who said what? Mayor R. Priya said the first phase of the corridors would include 18 roads where bins will be placed with additional manpower. Civic activist R Ramesh said some hotels in Thiruvottiyur High Road, one of the identified roads, continue to dump waste outside despite bins being placed.