Kochi and problems with its humongous waste

It's tough to run a hotel these days with inflation above 10% and vegetable prices doubling in two years. They have now one more costly item to worry. It's their waste. Hotels in kochi need to bribe corporation staff around Rs.3500 per day to clear and dispose their waste. Out of no choice hotel managements pay this passing a share of this cost to the consumer.

Kochi has more waste than it can manage. Recently a housing society dumped their waste inside a government office for not doing their duty. People in Lalur, a place where some wastes are dumped, have suffered for long and is on a protest for redemption. Kalamassery, a major transit point of Kochi, has reached a point of no return. The place is stinking and keeps reminding everyone without fail. Rapid urbanisation and with it lack of professional management of waste is the reason. Each one of us do not take responsibility for wastes that we generate and prefer to pass it to the corporation staff. Solution lie within us.