The Hindu 05.09.2012
BBMP plans to produce crude oil from plastic
Submits report to High Court on waste management plans
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has
submitted an interim report to the Karnataka High Court indicating its
plans to set up a bio-methanisation plant, automated waste segregation
plants and a waste-to-energy project to address the issue of garbage
disposal being faced by the city.
A Division Bench of
the High Court had directed the BBMP Commissioner to submit the report
on the issues related to garbage disposal while hearing a public
interest litigation (PIL) petition, filed by city-based advocate G.R.
Mohan, which complained about BBMP’s failure in garbage disposal.
The
report states that to reduce menace of plastics, a technology for
conversion of plastics to crude oil had been proposed and tenders for
this had been finalised for conversion of 10 tonnes of waste plastic per
day to crude oil under Design-Build-Operate-Transfer mode. This
proposal has been submitted to the State government for approval.
Besides,
the report pointed out that a bio-methanisation plant had been planned
to process wet waste. “Tender has been finalised and work order was
issued for 16 units of five-tonne capacity bio-methanisation plant, and
the work will start shortly,” the report added.
It
stated in the report that mechanised segregation of waste has been
proposed along with the present manual segregation. This system could
recover maximum reusable materials like plastics, metals, etc from the
solid waste.
The report stated that tender had been
finalised to install fully-automated plant having capacity to process
750 tonnes of waste per day under DBOT and the proposal has been sent to
the government for approval.
The BBMP report said
that a project of waste-to-energy had been approved by the State
government under which Satarem Enterpirses Pvt Ltd would establish a
plant on their own land.
Mayor moves court
City
Mayor D. Venkatesh Murthy and his wife K. Prabha have moved the High
Court challenging the criminal case registered against them by the
Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force police station on allegations of
illegal allotment of bagair hukum land. The petition is likely to come
up for hearing on Wednesday.
- 16 bio-methanisation plants of five-tonne capacity planned
- Civic body plans mechanised segregation of waste