Summary:
Greater Chennai Corporation pays a private contractor 1.79 crore of taxpayer money just to prevent the landfill from flowing over its boundaries. The pile of waste is burning a hole in your pocket without you ever noticing.For instance, take the Athipattu landfill in Ambattur (Zone 7). Wages for workers involved in the process too have gone up," a corporation officer said.Reclamation of the Athipattu landfill was proposed when Ambattur merged with Chennai corporation in 2011. In 2012-13, the corporation paid around 2 crore per annum to a contractor to shift out 315 tonnes of waste per day from Athipattu to the Kodungaiyur landfill. CHENNAI: You may want to reconsider the next time you dump a plastic bag full of bio-degradable waste into the street-side bin..