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Sandeep Kadam, head of the solid waste management department, said that GPS systems will be installed in every vehicle carrying RDF, fertilizer and refuse to keep a close watch on where the waste is dumped.
Villagers caught a truck carrying plastic waste and rags for the boiler of a steel company in Deulgaon Wada village of Daund taluka from the municipal corporation's waste processing plant in Ramtekdi and handed it over to the Yavat police. The police seized the truck and registered a case against the driver for trying to dispose of plastic waste unscientifically in violation of the rules of the State Pollution Board. After the incident on August 28, the Municipal Corporation has issued a notice to all waste processing plants in the Ramtekdi area asking about the truck. However, it is not yet known which project the truck has gone through, said Sandeep Kadam.
Meanwhile, the municipal corporation has recently made GPS system mandatory for every vehicle transporting waste to track the waste collected from the city and going to the processing plants as per the guidelines of Mahua in the tender for the biomining process at the Devachi Uruli waste depot. But for the first time, whether the final disposal of RDF, fertilizer and reject generated after processing in the tender of biomining is done as per the guidelines of MPCB or not? To control this, GPS system has also been made mandatory for the vehicles transporting this.
In this backdrop, after the case filed in Yavat police station, the administration has decided to make GPS system mandatory for tracking vehicles carrying RDF, fertilizer and reagents from all the ongoing projects. Speaking in this regard, Sandeep Kadam, head of the solid waste management department, said that a proposal in this regard will be prepared and approved by the higher authorities.