Swachh Visakha... Swachh Visakha...
Hi Khadija.
Hi Usha.
What is this announcement I just heard? I have been hearing it in our colony since many days.
GVMC is asking us to segregate our household waste.
If we do not segregate our waste into wet and dry waste, they will not collect it from our buildings.
What is wrong if we do not segregate wet waste and dry waste?
If we don’t do the segregation ourselves, it becomes very difficult for GVMC
to segregate the huge amount of mixed waste collected daily.
Normally we put all our household waste into a plastic bag
and throw it in the municipality dustbin.
So, is it ok to throw our waste in plastic bags?
Right now, that is what we are all doing, but what happens is that after reaching the dump yard
all the mixed waste rots and harmful gas called Methane is produced.
How do we segregate our household waste into wet and dry waste?
Let me show you. Could you please bring your waste?
So, this is all the waste generated in your home. You are collecting it in a plastic bag and then throwing the whole bag into the large bin,
this is then thrown in the dump yard by the municipal workers. This method is very harmful to us.
Our waste is our responsibility, so we should learn how to segregate it ourselves.
Could you get me that green bin please? We should use a green coloured bin for wet waste.  This should never be lined with plastic,
because the plastic bag will also end up in the dump yard and get mixed into the soil.
If you can’t do without lining your green bin, then you can line it with a paper bag.
This can be made very easily, using newspaper.
Take two sheets of newspaper and fold them into a bag like this.
You can line your bin with this folded newspaper bag.
All natural waste from our homes must go into the green bin.
This includes fruit peel, vegetable peel, coconut husk, food waste and
flowers, egg shells, coffee powder - all these should go into the green bin.
Avoid using plastic bags, remove them and throw only waste into the bin.
This is how we should segregate our wet waste.
Khadija please give me another bin?
We need to throw the dry waste into a blue coloured bin. Since we don’t have one now, let us use this bag.
Thermocol, plastic wrappers and bags, cardboard, batteries, bulbs,
glass and plastic bottles, boxes, toothpaste tubes, shampoo bottles,
slippers, shoes, tablets, food containers, tetra paks, 
polythene bags, rinsed milk packets, electronic waste etc should all go into this.
Hazardous waste like cotton dressings, diapers, sanitary napkins, band-aids, ear buds etc
should be wrapped separately in paper, marked with a cross and then put in the blue bin.
Sharp objects like blades, razors, injections, broken glass should be handed over separately to the municipal workers.
See how easy it is to segregate our waste at home into wet waste and dry waste.
We have wrapped the sanitary napkins in newspaper and and marked the packet with a cross.
Sharp objects like razors and needles have been collected separately to avoid any injury to the workers.
So, doing this is good for our environment as well as our city.
In apartments, waste from every flat is collected in a common place.
Is it put into a single bin or in two separate bins?
We throw it all into a single bin.
So, from now on use two bins.
Use one bin for wet waste and a second bin for dry waste.
Such a small change in our habits
can help us save nature,
and transform our city into a model city.
GVMC is working hard to make our city
clean, green and pleasant 
and a city that we can be proud of.
As responsible citizens we should
try to extend our support in all possible ways
and make our city more beautiful.
Swachh Visakha... Swachh Visakha...
Greetings to all,
From the 5th of June,
on the World Environment Day,
the Central Government and the Honourable Prime Minister
have asked that each and every city and all citizens 
should segregate their waste at home.
Keeping this in mind, I request the people of Visakhapatnam
to segregate all the waste generated in your homes into wet waste and
dry waste and hand it over to GVMC workers. Thank You.
