Bhatkal is one of town under Karnataka Urban Development and Costal Environment Management Project (KUDCEMP), which is under going various project to improve the Town. The population of Bhatkal is 31,774 and covers the area of about 5.23Sq.kms. No. of Households in this town is 5625. Approximate wastes generated per day is 14 tonnes including Households, Commercial, Industrial and Constructional Wastes.

            The Main objective of this KUDCEMP project is to make this town a Binless town in the coming days. ie., recycling of waste is done in an systematic way that could keep the Environment Clean & Green. To do so, collection of waste is done in 2 steps: Primary Collection and Secondary Collection. Primary Collection ie., door to door collection is done by SHGs (Self Help Groups) and Secondary Storage ie., Transportation of collected waste to the landfill site is done by TMC staff.

            For this, Systematic Action Plan is designed for which funding is done by KUDCEMP. According to this  Action Plan, 5 Auto tippers will be purchased and 5 SHGs will be involved for the primary collection. For Secondary Collection, 1 dumper Placer and 14 Secondary Containers will be purchased.

          Door to door Collection is already started in some of the wards like 9,10,11,12 and will cover all the 23 wards by December 2006. So collected waste will be dumped in an open area called Landfill Site for further settling and recycling. About 2 Hectares of Forest Land is purchased for this purpose.

         To bring awareness to the people, I.E.C. activities are conducted in all the wards and schools.