GURUGRAM: Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) and waste management firm Ecogreen have started converting a dumping ground in Badshapur into a material recovery and composting facility, with the capacity to process 200 tonnes of waste every day. It will be the first such facility in the city, according to MCG, for the recovery, segregation and recycling of plastics, glass bottles, metals, paper, etc., and the municipality expects it to reduce the load on the Bandhwari landfill site.
The facility is coming up on three acres of land in Badshapur; one acre is for the material recovery facility (MRF), one acre is for compost and recovered material storage, and half an acre is for the accommodation of the staff. It, according to MCG, would cater to the waste collected from the new sectors and areas such as Maruti Kunj. Initially, it will be a manual facility processing 100 tonnes of waste per day, with waste pickers deployed to extract and segregate waste material and the wet material composted at the site. As many as 35 pits are at the site to process the wet waste. Each can accommodate 20 tonnes of waste, according to MCG. There is space for more pits for later.
“We are starting with processing 100 tonnes of waste and will gradually increase the capacity to 200 tonnes per day. A weighing scale will get installed at the site to assess the quantity of the waste. Only 20% of the waste from the MRF, which would be inert, would 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 MCG to issue guidelines to the condominiums or bulk waste generators in Zone 4 to deposit their wet waste to this facility if they do not have a composting facility inside their premises. We will compost the wet waste, following all guidelines,” he added.
The Badshapur MRF, according to MCG, is the first step towards the goal of zero waste in Gurugram through a decentralised waste management system.
“It will have provisions for dry waste segregation into eight categories and the composting of wet waste. More MRFs will become operational in the coming months and further improve the capacity of this decentralised waste management system,” said MCG additional commissioner Dr Vaishali Sharma.
The municipality claimed to have handed over the land for MRFs at three other sites to Ecogreen, and work will begin there soon. “The idea is to reduce the burden on the (Bandhwari) landfill site and process waste effectively. The MCG staff will monitor the weighing scale at the MRFs to evaluate the quantity of waste coming in and going out after processing,” said an MCG official.
Meanwhile, a waste-to-energy plant is currently under construction at the Bandhwari landfill site. The project has a deadline of December 2023.
The facility is coming up on three acres of land in Badshapur; one acre is for the material recovery facility (MRF), one acre is for compost and recovered material storage, and half an acre is for the accommodation of the staff. It, according to MCG, would cater to the waste collected from the new sectors and areas such as Maruti Kunj. Initially, it will be a manual facility processing 100 tonnes of waste per day, with waste pickers deployed to extract and segregate waste material and the wet material composted at the site. As many as 35 pits are at the site to process the wet waste. Each can accommodate 20 tonnes of waste, according to MCG. There is space for more pits for later.
“We are starting with processing 100 tonnes of waste and will gradually increase the capacity to 200 tonnes per day. A weighing scale will get installed at the site to assess the quantity of the waste. Only 20% of the waste from the MRF, which would be inert, would 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 MCG to issue guidelines to the condominiums or bulk waste generators in Zone 4 to deposit their wet waste to this facility if they do not have a composting facility inside their premises. We will compost the wet waste, following all guidelines,” he added.
The Badshapur MRF, according to MCG, is the first step towards the goal of zero waste in Gurugram through a decentralised waste management system.
“It will have provisions for dry waste segregation into eight categories and the composting of wet waste. More MRFs will become operational in the coming months and further improve the capacity of this decentralised waste management system,” said MCG additional commissioner Dr Vaishali Sharma.
The municipality claimed to have handed over the land for MRFs at three other sites to Ecogreen, and work will begin there soon. “The idea is to reduce the burden on the (Bandhwari) landfill site and process waste effectively. The MCG staff will monitor the weighing scale at the MRFs to evaluate the quantity of waste coming in and going out after processing,” said an MCG official.
Meanwhile, a waste-to-energy plant is currently under construction at the Bandhwari landfill site. The project has a deadline of December 2023.
