Headed by a Superintending Engineer, the department looks after clearance and management of solid waste which is a major responsibility of the Corporation. Every day around 5400 MT of garbage is collected from the city. Night conservancy is also being carried out in all bus route roads and Markets / commercial areas of the city. Door to door collection of garbage is done in all zones.
No. of Transfer station available | 7 |
Daily quantity of Waste transferred to transfer station | 3600 tons of garbage |
At present Garbage generated in Chennai is dumping at two land fill sites and construction and demolition waste is being used for covering each layer of garbage in two dump sites.
For remediation of the existing Landfill or scientific closure and to have the Integrated waste processing facilities with waste to energy plant as component at the existing Kodungaiyur and Perungudi dump sites, the Transaction Advisory Consultant have prepared DFR and sent for approval of the competent Authority and simultaneously the RFP documents are under preparation.
Number of Disposal Sites : Two (Kodungaiyur and Perungudi)
1- Bridges Across B'canal, | |
Location | Kodungaiyur |
Extent | Area around 269 acres. |
Total number of years in use | More than 35 Years |
Neighborhood | Within one K.M (are in existence) |
Daily Waste disposed | 2600 to 2800 M.T |
Perungudi | |
Location | Perungudi |
Extent | Area around 200 acres. (Restricted) |
Total number of years in use | Within 0.5 KM (formed after dumping) |
Neighborhood | More than 30 Years |
Daily Waste disposed | 2400 tons to 2600 MT |
Collection of Municipal Solid Waste at source (Door to door collection) has been implemented in all Zones. About 95% of the households were covered under this programme.
This has been achieved only on introduction of Tricycles which stands as a wonder tool for better collection of MSW at door steps. Now about 5400 Tricycles are in use for reduction of dust bins on road side.
Source separation is promoted to reduce the waste coming to the Landfill, thereby increasing the life time of the Landfills. The bio-degradable waste (Organic Waste) is being composted in a decentralized manner at ward level by Ordinary and Vermi compost plants and Bio methanation plants and manure used for GCC parks and greeneries besides open sale to public also. Source separated thin plastics are subjected to shredding in all units / zones and it has been used for laying Bituminous road laying. The source Separated non biodegradable (Dry Waste) collected on every Wednesdays for recycling.
Print Media | Multilingual pamphlets& Newspapers |
Mass Contact | Rallies &Street plays |
Involve Stakeholders | NGO's + Welfare Associations |
Electronic Media | Awareness and Advertisements through Radio |
Permanent workers | 6990 |
Panchayat/NMR/Consolidated | 545 |
NULM (SHGs) Temporary | 8171 |
Ramky (Chennai Municipal Solid Waste Management – Private contractor) | 3403 |
TOTAL | 19109 |
No. of Plants | Type of Plant | Designed Capacity in MT/day |
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Ordinary Compost | 136 | 142.37 |
Vermi-Compost | 2 | 3.20 |
Bio-Gas | 23 | 8.94 |
Bio – Electrical (BARC Technology) | 5 | 11.50 |
The above proposals are under various stages of approval for implementation.