Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has issued directions to 32 starred hotels, including five star properties, to immediately install bio-degradable waste disposal plant, failing which action would be taken against them.
The notices were issued under Municipal Solid waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000, when it was pointed out that the hotels ask the piggeries to take over the surplus food, creating nuisance for the people living near the piggeries, GSPCB chairman Jose Manual Noronha told reporters here today.
The board had inspected several piggeries and decided to cut down the problem at its source, which are starred hotels, Noronha said.
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The consent granted to various hotels under Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, specifies that "the applicant should install facility for converting bio degradable waste generated from the hotel to compost so as to meet the standards of compost prescribed in the municipal solid waste (management and handling) rules, 2000."