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Hitch-free trial run at Brahmapuram plant

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Novel idea: Waste being segregated as part of the trial run held at the solid waste treatment plant of the Kochi Corporation at Brahmapuram on Friday.

KOCHI: Solid waste treatment began on a trial basis at the Brahmapuram plant of the Kochi Corporation here on Friday. Ten truckloads of waste, mainly consisting of rotten vegetables and plantain leaf collected from markets in the city, were segregated by the sorting machine.

The trial run passed off without hiccups. The Kochi Corporation hopes that the garbage problem in the city will be solved once the plant becomes fully operational. M.P. Fernando, Director, Operations, Hyquip Technologies, said that 25 tonne of waste could be segregated per hour using the facility. Hyquip has been entrusted with the task of running the plant for one year.

Elaborating on the mechanical procedure behind the sorting equipment, Kesavan Nair, General Manager, Projects, said that solid waste below 100mm thickness would be used for composting. Solid waste above 100mm will go into the landfill. The entire plant will become fully operational within two weeks, he said.

Mayor Mercy Williams said that the Corporation owned 62 acres of land, worth Rs.63 crore, at Brahmapuram. .The major components of the plant are a tipping floor for dumping waste from vehicles, pre-sorting shed for sorting of large garbage bags, treatment platform for composting of heaped waste, compost processing shed for processing it to manure, packing godown, sanitary landfill areaand other amenities such as parking shed, workers’ resting facility and weigh bridge.

The completion of the plant will also mark the end of the first project under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission in the State.

The Andhra Pradesh Technology Development Corporation is the implementing agency and the FACT Engineering and Design Organisation the consultant of the Corporation for the project.

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