NO MORE PRETTY
-- Preetu Nair
The picture-perfect beaches in the coastal villages are turning into environmental cesspools, thanks to garbage. The Rural Garbage Disposal Scheme-2005 requires all panchayats to identify collection-cum-composting sites that can treat bio-degradable waste and store nonbiodegradable waste. The state government should bear the cost of acquisition of land.
But none of the 26 coastal village panchayats has a garbage-treatment plant and most don’t even have a site. Shack and restaurant owners dump garbage either on the beach despite regular awareness programmes on how to treat and segregate garbage. The government has set up 11 plastic shredders in each taluka to treat recyclable non-biodegradable waste generated by panchayats but there is no way to treat non-recyclable, biodegradable waste.
Calangute is the only village with its own dumping site and garbage is disposed of via contractors.
2008 May 08 Times Of India Goa
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