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Municipal Waste Of Mysore City

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S.N Source Quantity (Ton Per Day) 1 Organic Components 40 2 Wooden Materials 1.5 3 Plastics 10 4 Stones /pebbles/silts/sands 45 5 Clothes & rags 1.5 6 Metals 0.2 7 Rubber& leather 1 8 Glass & Ceramics 0.8 Total Table 2 Municipal waste composition of Mysore city As expected the highest fraction is for organic and biodegradable matters, with relatively high amounts of plastics and other reusable and recyclable matters, a noticeable fraction of stones /pebbles/silts/sands were observed which indicates developing and building activities in the city, however it is a good indication of developing although, those Stones /pebbles/silts/sands materials are non-biodegradable or reusable materials which inhibits the waste management scheme and obligatory decrease it is efficiency. 2.3 Municipal Waste Collection System Collection of wastes is supervised by the governmental organization named Mysore City Cooperation abbreviated (MCC), where a staff of waste collectors are recruited for waste collection at door steps of houses and small to medium size establishments including hotels, schools, shops, hospitals and markets, while large establishments like industrial plants have to transfer their waste to fixed collection points on their own, as governmental legalization states, the collected municipal wastes from houses and establishments are gathered in rectangular metallic bins of size range 2m3 for urban zones and 10 m3 for establishments zones, another staff of street sweepers

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