Dimapur: “Each person including a new born baby is producing about 200 grams of solid waste per day. A household of six persons is producing a minimum of 1200 grams or 1.2 kg. With a population of four lakhs, Dimapur is producing about 80 metric tons per day. In a month, the city produces 2400MT approximately and in a year, about 28,800MT solid waste is produced. If this is the scenario, how much are we doing to manage the wastes in our homes and city?”
Pro Rural Dimapur conducts National Environment Awareness Campaign 2013-14
This was discussed and deliberated during a National Environment Awareness Campaign Programme (NEAC 2013-14) organized at Kuda Village, Mao Baptist church, Dimapur on February 13 on the theme: “Kitchen waste management towards building a healthy environment”.
According to a press release, in collaboration with Nagaland Pollution Control Board and Ministry of Environment and Forests, New Delhi, Pro- Rural Dimapur carried out the programme and interacted with the mothers/house-wives at Kuda Village.
The programme especially targeted the housewives as they play an important role in managing the households. The resource persons spoke on the need to segregate household waste into different waste bins and to dispose off or re-use them accordingly towards building a better and cleaner environment. It further shared on the four R’s in waste management: reduce, reuse, recycle and refuse on how they can create healthy environment.
Interactive session was taken up with the group where some women shared about how they managed the daily wastes and utilize them. Concerns were raised in regarding to the use of polythene bags, which adds more to the waste every day. It also further pointed out the concerns on how to manage broken glasses like bottles, electric bulbs and tubes and other hazardous materials.
Waste bins were also donated to the mothers/housewives during the programme to consciously start practicing waste segregation at source, which will control creating wastes at large. The programme concluded with a positive note from the participants to be agents of Environment Awareness Campaign in their own homes and the society at large. Kahuli Swu, L. Kamo and Athilu Khrasi from Pro Rural Organization facilitated the programme.
