It generates nearly 200 tonnes of waste daily which is taken to the
compost plant at Pachchanady, 10km from here, for processing. The waste
that cannot be converted is shifted to an adjacent landfill site,
designed to handle waste generated up till 2035. The compost plant and
landfill site are spread over 77.93 acres of land, of which 25.4 acres
is earmarked for handling waste generated over the next 25 years from
2010 onwards.

The scientific landfill site project has been taken up under the Karnataka Urban Development
and Coastal Environmental Management Project and 6 acres of land is
used in the first phase of six years that started in December 2010. The
second phase is of a three-year duration, the third phase six years, and
the fourth and final phases together account for 10 years. This plan
could come under pressure only if city boundaries grow.

Deputy
commissioner N S Channappa Gowda told TOI urban local bodies in Dakshina
Kannada district have their landfills. “Barring the Moodbidri town
municipal council, landfill sites have been provided at Puttur and
Bantwal municipal councils, and Sullia, Belthangady and Mulki town
panchayats,” he said. The DC said the problem in Moodbidri landfill will
be resolved soon. Mangalore City Corporation commissioner K Harish
Kumar said 140 of the 200 tonnes received at the compost plant is
converted to manure using the win-row system and 25 tonnes using the
vermi-composting.