The Greater Chennai Corporation is getting ready to start initiatives that will process all of the city’s municipal solid trash.
Only a minor amount of inert material will be delivered to the Perungudi and Kodungaiyur dump yards after the projects are completed. Over 5,200 tonnes of solid trash are currently delivered to Perungudi and Kodungaiyur.
The Corporation is investigating the viability of constructing two larger bio CNG facilities, each with a capacity of 500 tonnes, to handle segregated wet waste in the city. To cut down on the amount of rubbish sent to Perungudi and Kodungaiyur, one each is planned to be built in north and south Chennai. “By January, the comprehensive project report will be finished. The initiatives will get underway this fiscal year,” said an official
Projects, including plastic waste to fuel plants, were expected to get TNPCB clearance shortly. For processing dry garbage, resource recovery centres had been set up and plastic is being sent to cement factories in Ariyalur.
