The Hindu 11.01.2014
Tuticorin to be free from garbage
A team of officials from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
(BARC) visited Tuticorin on Friday and conducted a feasibility study to
set up a solid waste management plant under the corporation limits.
A
team led by J. Daniel Chellappa, senior scientist at the Technical
Coordination Wing of BARC, along with Commissioner of Tuticorin
Corporation S. Madhumathi inspected sites at Cruzpuram and State Bank
Colony here.
To generate energy from waste and
establish a garbage-free Tuticorin, the BARC has embarked on a solid
waste management project. For biogas production from waste, he said the
BARC had introduced Nisargruna technology, through which expertise could
be shared with stakeholders. The DRDA had prepared a detailed project
report to establish a Nisargruna plant at Tharuvaikulam, where a compost
yard was located.
Primarily, organic manure could be
derived from waste and methane gas would be a by-product from
biodegradable waste, he said. Three cylinders of methane gas and 100 kg
of organic manure could be produced from a tonne of waste.
