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Hyderabad-based firm bags waste management deal

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The New Indian Express 05.11.2009

Hyderabad-based firm bags waste management deal


CHENNAI: The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) on Wednesday signed an integrated solid waste management project deal with Hyderabad-based Ramky Group to maintain the 60-acre fruits and vegetables market in the Koyambedu Wholesale Market Complex (KWMC) and the biomethanation facility to generate power from organic waste.

The deal, which was signed by CMDA member secretary and chairman of Market Management Committee (MMC) Vikram Kapur and K Banuja of Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited, is to remove 150 to 180 metric tonnes of garbage per day from around 3, 500 shops in the area. Kapur told Express that the project, the first of its kind in the country, will be in place for the next 12 years and the partial commencement will be in the next three months.

Ramky will maintain the complex and the 250 kw power plant that uses the organic waste to generate power through biomethanation, a process that uses the combustible methanerich gas generated during the decomposition of the waste to fuel the power plant.

The garbage will be segregated as biodegradable and non-biodegradable.

The biodegradable waste will be used to make fertilisers while the non-biodegradable will be dumped at the Kodingayur dumpyard, said chief administrative officer of KWMC T Anbalagan. The recycled waste will be used to generate electricity, Anbalagan said. The plant was established by the CMDA with the assistance of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India. Out of the total project cost of Rs 5.50 crore, the Ministry contributed Rs 3.75 crore, while the rest was contributed by the CMDA and the Market Management Committee.

CMDA vice-chairman Susan Mathew was present during the occasion.

Last Updated on Thursday, 05 November 2009 07:12
 

Kodungaiyur project on fast track

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Deccan Chronicle 05.11.2009

Kodungaiyur project on fast track

November 5th, 2009
By Our Correspondent

Chennai
Nov. 4: The chief engineer of the city corporation on Wednesday rushed to Delhi to ensure that the prestigious project of establishing a zero waste centre at Kodungaiyur, in north Chennai, through which the city corporation plans to generate electricity and manure, is approved. The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), which assessed the plan and its environmental impact, has now forwarded the corporation’s proposal to the Central environmental committee under the Union ministry of environment and forests for approval.

According to Ripon Building sources, corporation commissioner Rajesh Lakh-oni is also gearing up to submit a presentation to the en-vironmental committee insi-sting that the project would reduce pollution in and around Kodungaiyur dumping yard. The commissioner would fly to Delhi shortly and appeal to the environmental committee that the zero waste centre would on-ly help the corporation red-uce its accumulated garbage load and there will not be any environmental hazard.

Sources with the solid waste management department of the corporation clarified that TNPCB, in a rec-ent communiqué, said highly polluted north Chennai industrial area Manali was located close to Kodungaiyur. As per the topographical sketch for 10 km radius furnished during the presentation before state environment impact assessment authority (SEIAA), it is seen that Manali, a critically polluted area identified by CPCB, is located within the 10 km radius of the site where the integrated facility is proposed to be put up. So, the proposal was forwarded to the Central committee. The communiqué also read that since the facility is proposed to be put up on the site for Chennai corporation alone, where the solid waste from the city is dumped, it is presumed that SEIAA can accord environmental clearance, the statement added.

The city generates on an average 3,600 tonnes waste daily. Neel Metal Fanalca and the corporation dump a majority of it at Pallikaranai, a marshland, and Kodungaiyur.

 

Private firms to collect dry waste from houses

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The Hindu 04.11.2009

Private firms to collect dry waste from houses

Deepa H Ramakrishnan

EOI invited for contract in six Corporation zones for 3 years

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HANDLING garbage: The proposal to involve private agencies in recyclable waste management is likely to reduce load on garbage dumps of the Chennai Corporation.

CHENNAI: Private agencies will soon take up door-to-door collection of plastic and other recyclable and non-biodegradable waste in several parts of the city.

The Chennai Corporation has invited expression of interest (EOI) from private firms for awarding the contract in six of its 10 zones for three years. The selected firm would be required to collect the waste, including hardboards, tyres and paper, using its own men and machinery. The six zones are Tondiarpet, Basin Bridge, Ayanavaram, Anna Nagar, Nungambakkam and Saidapet.

A senior official said that the objective is to make households take up segregation of garbage on a regular basis. Already it is being tried out in four wards of Zone 5 (Anna Nagar) on a trial basis. Every month, about 45 tonnes of recyclable waste is being collected from the households.

ITC, which is involved in the operation, uses dry waste in its factories. It pays Rs.2 for a kg of such waste to the households, the official said. The Corporation provides tricycles to the ITC staff involved in the operation and the civic body’s conservancy staff accompany them on their rounds.

He said a few more companies had evinced interest to take up collection of such waste for use in their manufacturing facilities. “We are not taking the tender route, but only inviting expression of interest as there is a possibility of more companies participating that way. The idea is also to approach the issue of waste management in a different manner.”

Wet waste

However, the Corporation conservancy staff will continue to collect wet waste in the six zones and take them to the regular landfills. “If the initiative takes off, it will reduce the burden on landfills, help recycle waste and prevent further environmental damage,” another official said.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 November 2009 04:20
 


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