thiruvananthapuram the city corporation which launched my city beautiful city amid much fanfare last year with an intention to convert all city wards into clean wards now has a backlog of 90 tonnes of waste to be cleared more than half of the 188 aerobic bins installed in 51 wards with the purpose of dealing with this waste have become dysfunctional the project secretariat entrusted with maintenance of units has gone into inert mode since the announcement of local body elections now the corporation is making a frantic move to revive the project to avoid the bizarre situation of capital city stinking with waste strewn all around the civic body is mulling over getting the land at erumakuzhy from thiruvananthapuram development authority trida on lease as part of reviving the project which has been derailed for the last two months as per the new proposal finalized by the health wing land at erumakuzhy could be used as an open yard on lease for a period of 4050 years where manure collected from aerobic bins across the city could be stored and sold to farmers the corporation will present the proposal before trida in the meeting scheduled on december 21 mayor v k prashanth who is also the executive member of trida expressed hope that trida would accede to the proposal the new ruling council is left with scarce options to run the campaign as more than half of the bins have become dysfunctional in some places the units require maintenance while in other units requirement of dry leaves and lack of proper processing of waste on daily basis have resulted in heaps around the bins the project secretariat has been unable to ensure proper maintenance of aerobic bins which resulted in malfunctioning of the units in many places ironically the waste management campaign has run into trouble at a time when its proponent mla thomas isaac presented a paper on alappuzhas nirmala nagaram project modelled on same process at paris climate summit the officials have failed to collect sacks of dry leaves which need to be stored one month in advance dry leaves act as source of carbon which are packed in sandwich form along with biodegradable waste and cowdung or inoculum fourfive layers could be made in a bin with a capacity of two tonnes the city corporation has installed bins with capacity of two tonnes and for each layer bed of dryleaves have to be prepared at a thickness of six inches it is this composition which generates heat up to a temperature of 7075 degree celsius which kills the pathogens and leads to disintegration of the waste the absence of dry leaves results in formation of leachate since election was announced the maintenance of aerobic bins has been disregarded and now we need to revive the entire project said an official the civic body now needs to form a new project team to ensure maintenance of units and also to increase the number of bins so that