GURUGRAM: Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (mcg) and Waste Management firm Ecogreen has started converting a dumping ground into Badshapur in a material health benefit and composting facility with a capacity to process 200 tonnes of waste every day. According to the MCG, this will be the first such facility in the city for the recovery, segregation and recycling of plastic, glass bottles, metals, paper etc., and the municipality hopes to reduce the load. Bandhwari landfill site.
This facility is being built on three acres of land in Badshapur. One acre is for Material Recovery Facility (MRF), one acre is for manure and recovered material storage, and half an acre is for staff accommodation. According to the MCG, this will cater to the waste collected from new areas and areas like Maruti Kunj. Initially, it will be a manual facility processing 100 tonnes of waste per day, with rag pickers deployed to remove and segregate the waste material and compost the wet material on site. There are 35 pits on site to process wet waste. According to the MCG, each can hold 20 tonnes of waste. There is room for more pits for the latter.
“We are starting with processing 100 tonnes of waste and will gradually increase the capacity to 200 tonnes per day. A weighing scale will be installed at the site to assess the amount of waste. Only 20% of the waste from MRF, which will be inactive, will go to the landfill site,” Ecogreen General Manager (Operations) Suvendu Samantaray said.
“The facility will be ready in the first week of January. We have also requested the MCG to issue guidelines to condominiums or bulk waste generators in Zone 4 to deposit their wet waste at this facility, if the composting facility is inside their premises. No, we will make compost from wet waste following all the guidelines.
According to MCG, Badshapur MRF is the first step towards the goal of zero waste in Gurugram through a decentralized waste management system.
“It will have provision for segregation of dry waste into eight categories and composting of wet waste. More MRFs will be commissioned in the coming months and the efficiency of this decentralized waste management system will be further improved,” said Dr Vaishali Sharma, Additional Commissioner, MCG.
The municipality has claimed to have handed over land to Ecogreen at three other sites for MRF and work will start there soon. “The idea (Bandwari) is to reduce the burden on the landfill site and process the waste effectively. The MCG staff will monitor the weighing scale at the MRF to evaluate the quantity of waste that comes and goes after processing,” said a MCG official.
Meanwhile, a waste-to-energy plant is under construction at the Bandhwadi landfill site. The project deadline is December 2023.
This facility is being built on three acres of land in Badshapur. One acre is for Material Recovery Facility (MRF), one acre is for manure and recovered material storage, and half an acre is for staff accommodation. According to the MCG, this will cater to the waste collected from new areas and areas like Maruti Kunj. Initially, it will be a manual facility processing 100 tonnes of waste per day, with rag pickers deployed to remove and segregate the waste material and compost the wet material on site. There are 35 pits on site to process wet waste. According to the MCG, each can hold 20 tonnes of waste. There is room for more pits for the latter.
“We are starting with processing 100 tonnes of waste and will gradually increase the capacity to 200 tonnes per day. A weighing scale will be installed at the site to assess the amount of waste. Only 20% of the waste from MRF, which will be inactive, will go to the landfill site,” Ecogreen General Manager (Operations) Suvendu Samantaray said.
“The facility will be ready in the first week of January. We have also requested the MCG to issue guidelines to condominiums or bulk waste generators in Zone 4 to deposit their wet waste at this facility, if the composting facility is inside their premises. No, we will make compost from wet waste following all the guidelines.
According to MCG, Badshapur MRF is the first step towards the goal of zero waste in Gurugram through a decentralized waste management system.
“It will have provision for segregation of dry waste into eight categories and composting of wet waste. More MRFs will be commissioned in the coming months and the efficiency of this decentralized waste management system will be further improved,” said Dr Vaishali Sharma, Additional Commissioner, MCG.
The municipality has claimed to have handed over land to Ecogreen at three other sites for MRF and work will start there soon. “The idea (Bandwari) is to reduce the burden on the landfill site and process the waste effectively. The MCG staff will monitor the weighing scale at the MRF to evaluate the quantity of waste that comes and goes after processing,” said a MCG official.
Meanwhile, a waste-to-energy plant is under construction at the Bandhwadi landfill site. The project deadline is December 2023.
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