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Greater Chennai Corporation’s Saturday thrust of collecting aged sofas, clothes, beds and furnishings is 14 editions old, arsenic connected January 10, 2026. The collections are carried retired connected the ground of requests made by the nationalist connected the helpline fig 1913.
According to an authoritative from the Solid Waste Department of GCC, they person received 1,078 requests from the nationalist since the thrust was launched connected October 11, with maximum requests for doorstep pickup of discarded coming from Zone X (236).
“Close to 665 metric tonnes of the afore-mentioned discarded was processed by the incinerator successful Kodungaiyur,” says the official.
The nationalist tin marque a petition done the GCC helpline number, done the Namma Chennai app oregon done WhatsApp fig 9445061913, mentioning details of the items they person kept acceptable for disposal.
The petition is passed connected to the respective conservancy inspector of the portion who coordinates connected the clip for the doorstep pick-up. Once collected, the items volition beryllium taken to GCC’s incinerator successful Kodungaiyur.
Allotting a fixed time of the week for the thrust helped impart bully callback worth to it; successful different words, it was hard for residents to hide and disregard it. Regular updates connected GCC’s societal media pages helped dispersed the connection astir the drive.
The thrust volition continue. Officials nevertheless privation to dispel 1 misconception: that doorstep does not mean entering one’s location to cod the items. The authoritative explains: “The things to beryllium collected indispensable beryllium kept extracurricular the doorway conscionable earlier the squad is expected to come.”
