Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has asked the Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA) to recognize another landfill site for dumping city’s waste. The city generates over 1,100 metric tonnes of solid waste daily and to manage this much waste they will require another landfill site.
The present garbage dumping yard is at Bhandewadi is over-burdened. “At some point, we will need to relocate the site. Hence, we have approached NMRDA to explore all possible sites,” said municipal commissioner Ashwin Mudgal.
NMRDA officials told that 28 sites were shortlisted. “We have started the process of surveying the sites. The final decision will be taken after holding a meeting with concerned civic agencies and weighing pros and cons of all sites,” they said.
Sources also said that NMRDA officials have recently visited two sites appropriate for the sanitary landfill in Kalmeshwar and Butibori. according to sources, the officials are focusing to have a safe distance of the site from city to prevent any kind of health issues to humans because this has been frequently reporting about the problems faced by residents living close to the Bhandewadi dumping yard. This year, the dumping yard has also caught fire two-three times which is lauding to high air pollution.
According to sources, appropriate measures are being taken for treatment of solid waste and after the tendering process, bio-mining will be implemented at the site. Bio-mining is a process where the already dumped waste is dumped and segregated. The waste is detached by harrowing and sprayed with composting bio-cultures. Depending on its type, the waste is then sent for recycling, reusing or composting.
Apart from this, NGO Art of Living has approached NMC with a solution ‘Mrudamrud’ to tackle garbage problem. “The NGO claims that the solution showed positive results in Akola and Chennai. The solution promises to fasten the degradation process of organic waste, thus reducing the overall volume of waste. A demonstration was done at Bhandewadi on Friday and results will be out soon,” Mudgal said. NMC is also having plans to implement ‘waste-to-energy’ project at the site which will add more benefits to the people living the city in the terms of health. the civic body had informed the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court that it would complete the much-needed waste to energy project at Bhandewadi within two years.