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Andhra Pradesh has unveiled a broad Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to streamline the postulation and technological disposal of physics discarded crossed each 123 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), making twice-monthly e-waste drives mandatory.
An order, issued by the Municipal Administration & Urban Development (MA&UD) Department, addresses the increasing concerns implicit hazardous electronics entering municipal garbage systems.
Under the caller SOP issued connected Friday, ULBs indispensable behaviour e-waste postulation drives connected the 10th and 20th of each month, supported by designated postulation points, strict record-keeping and a dedicated Nodal Officer.
The authorities stressed that discarded items—mobile phones, computers, cables and household appliances—contain toxic elements that airs semipermanent biology and wellness risks erstwhile dumped successful landfills.
All e-waste collected indispensable beryllium handed implicit exclusively to the authorised recycler empanelled by the Swachha Andhra Corporation (SAC). While the State earlier signed an MoU with M/s RE Sustainability Private Limited, lone 46 ULBs had complied, prompting the authorities to found a azygous model and tighten monitoring.
The SAC volition run a cardinal dashboard to way ULB-level performance, with monthly and quarterly reporting mandatory. Awareness campaigns successful schools, residential colonies and municipality neighbourhoods volition enactment the initiative, which volition besides power territory rankings nether the Swarna Andhra Swachha Andhra (SASA) programme.
Principal Secretary (MA&UD) S. Suresh Kumar said the SOP ensures afloat traceability “from the household to the authorised recycler,” adding that national information is important to preventing semipermanent biology damage.
