Solid Waste Management

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Area in Extent
28.49 sq.km
Number of wards
21
General
12
Reserved for SC/ST
2
Reserved for SC/ST Women
2
Reserved for Women
5
Number of Streets
105
Length of Municipal Roads
76.680 Km
Length of Highways, Road
19.00 Km
Length of open drainage
(kutcha & bucca)
12.270 Km

COMPOSITION OF GARBAGE GENERATED IN KUMBAKONAM TOWN

1. Domestic Waste
 1.3 MT
(Cooking Waste, Discarded Food, Market Refuse, Paper, Grass, Meat and Vegetable, Plastics, cloths)
2. Trade Waste
2.5 MT
(Hawkers, Shops, Market, Office, Marriage Halls, Commercial Halls)
3. Other Waste including industrial Waste
1.20 MT
(Drain Silt, Building Waste, Street Solid Waste)
Total
11.00 MT

PRIMARY COLLECTION

Garbage Generated / Day : 11.00 MT
Collected by Municipality : 11.00 MT
Collected Through mass work : 15.50 MT

Method

1. Door to door segregation & collection
2. Street sweeping & open drainage silt clearing
3. Mopping

Note :- Collection and Segregation of Solid Waste in the town for all days
including local festival and Government holidays