The Tiruvannamalai Corporation has fitted the Global Positioning System (GPS) in its garbage vehicles to keep track of waste generation, especially door-to-door collection from households on a daily basis to ensure cleanliness of the town.
Officials of Tiruvannamalai Corporation, which has started the initiative, said that the idea to introduce GPS tracking system in trash vehicles is to re-energize the process of source segregation at households by sanitary workers before segregated wastes are dumped at landfill sites on Girivalam path.
“The idea is to inculcate the habit of source segregation by consumers as it will be helpful to process segregated wastes easily and to ensure cleanliness of the town,” S. Selva Balaji, Commissioner, Tiruvannamalai Corporation, told The Hindu.
Corporation officials said that garbage segregation into biodegradable and non biodegradable wastes was stopped during the outbreak of pandemic in 2021. Since then, sanitary workers were simply dumping all unsegregated wastes collected from households in landfill sites.
It has resulted in accidental fires. Also, segregation of accumulated wastes at landfill sites remains challenging due to such accidents. The GPS fitted vehicles help to encourage segregating wastes by consumers themselves.
