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Trichy: The Trichy Corporation on Thursday received four more mini trucks to be put to use for door-to-door waste collection across the 65 wards in the city. The corporation also hired a few private mini-trucks for waste collection process. “Minimum three mini trucks are needed to cover a ward. The vehicles were provided by the Indian Bank regional office here as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative.Already, 140 mini trucks have been deployed by the civic body each day to collect waste at doorsteps from residential localities as well as commercial streets. Induction of new vehicles would enhance the existing coverage of door-to-door waste collection,” an official source said.Adding that quality of source segregation in apartments and gated communities with dozens of housing units has been declining, the civic body said that residents welfare associations in gated communities will be sensitised to segregate the waste before handing it over to corporation workers..