Kumbakonam Municipality’s waste recycling model
June 12 , 2018
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- The Kumbakonam Municipality (KM), a premier municipal body in Thanjavur district, has become a model for recycling of solid wastes.
- With two lakh tonnes of solid wastes collected over a period of years sent for recycling, KM has become the first in the country to do so.
- This model has been included as a model for emulation in the Swachh Bharat scheme.
- A private company, ‘Zigma Global Environ Solutions’, was employed to recycle the solid wastes.
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