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By Karthik Subramanian
CHENNAI, FEB. 22. The Chennai Corporation plans to set up a mechanical composting plant at Kodungaiyur capable of handling up to 500 tonnes of mixed garbage a day. The civic agency's works committee approved a decision earlier this week to develop the project on a design, build, operate and transfer basis at its dumping yard in Kodungaiyur in north Chennai. The project will be discussed in the elected council meeting shortly and be sent to the Government for clearance. Officials said though the design of the plant was yet to be finalised, the project would try to emulate the composting plants designed and operated by Karnataka Compost Development Corporation. This is not the first time that the Corporation has planned scientific waste management projects at its dumping yards. Earlier, it had approved a plan to set up a 14.85 MW waste-to-electricity plant at Perungudi. Environmentalists had opposed the decision, saying it was not eco-friendly and that burning up mixed waste could release toxins. The project did not take off.
More acceptable
City managers now hope that the mechanical composting plant would be more acceptable. A senior official said: "It will give an impetus for the `source segregation of garbage' drive we initiated end of last year. The Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000 calls for all local bodies in the country to implement source segregation of garbage into organic and inorganic waste and also implement suitable technologies for waste disposal." Officials claim they have been able to reduce marginally the amount of waste reaching the dumping grounds in the last two months after introducing source segregation of waste in some parts of the city. However, they also admit that the project needs to be more widely implemented to give concrete results. "Most residents do not cooperate as they feel that even if the waste is separated into organic and inorganic components, it is all mixed up at the dumping yard. This is not true, since we have already set up composting yards at the division levels. However, the mechanical composting plant would help bring more residents to join segregation of garbage at source," the official added.
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