The Greater Chennai Corporation intends to boost its current 200 tonnes per day bio-CNG processing capacity to 1,700 tonnes per day in order to handle all the wet garbage produced in the city.
Gagandeep Singh Bedi, Chennai Corporation Commissioner, said that the city has two bio-CNG plants with a combined capacity of processing 200 tonnes of wet waste every day, and that efforts are ongoing to install bio-CNG plants with a total capacity of 500 tonnes per day. He was speaking on the second day of Tamil Nadu Climate Summit 2022 about “Achieving state’s goal on emission reduction through effective waste management.”
“We can not completely close down our dumping yards as we need some place to dump inert waste. But, we are going to construct 500 tonnes (per day) bio-CNG plants in north Chennai and another 500 tonnes bio-CNG plants in south Chennai. These facilities will process 1,700 tonnes of wet waste. With other methods of wet waste processing, the city will process all its wet waste,” he said.
Of the 5,500 tonnes of garbage generated in the city every day, around 50 per cent is wet waste.
