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
