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Treatment plant to make cooking gas from garbage

KOZHIKODE: The Vadakara municipality, as part of its decentralised waste management programme, will set up a solid waste treatment plant equipped to produce cooking gas from garbage on its Puthiappu trenching ground. The plan is to set up a plant which can process 10 quintals of waste on an experimental basis.

The plant will be set up with the technical support of Kerala Small Industries Development Corporation Ltd. (SIDCO). It is estimated that the municipality will have to invest Rs.30 lakh to open the hi-tech processing plant.

On a request of the municipal authorities, the technical wing of SIDCO conducted a demonstration of the processing device explaining the benefits of the product that had been found successful in several dumping yards.

According to the municipal authorities, the plant will be set up within the compound of the trenching yard after cleaning a portion of it. If the project is found successful, processing units with more capacity will be set up, they said.

Authorities are finding it hard to process around seven tonnes of garbage that is collected and dumped from the municipality limits on the trenching yard. A huge portion of this garbage is now generated from the markets of Vadakara where there is no facility to treat waste. The situation has worsened with the arrival of monsoon.

Huge relief

According to municipal chairperson P.P. Ranjini, the new processing plant will be a relief to people residing close to the Puthiappu trenching yard. “The municipality will convene a meeting of councillors within two weeks to discuss the implementation of the project,” she said.

“Our actual requirement is to open a plant having a capacity to process at least five tonnes of garbage and it will be discussed after the trial run,” she added.

Ten years ago, the municipality had set up a solid waste treatment plant, spending around Rs.25 lakh. But the unit stopped functioning owing to technical problems. The decision for a new plant was mooted as efforts to repair the unit had failed.

According to the municipal authorities, the problems in treating waste water would also come to an end within a year.

The Sanitation Mission had already given approval for a project which would come up at Karimbanakkad for treating waste water, they said.

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