On the second day of “Municipalika 2011” here on Friday, the BBMP announced that it had awarded tenders to recycle 1,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste using ‘Urban Waste to Energy’ green technologies. The Palike has allotted 25 acres of land in Mandur near Hoskote to set up the plant at a cost of Rs 110 crore.
ORS chairman Suhas Bhand said recycling will be done incorporating patented Anaerobic Digestion technology.
“Bangalore generates 5,000 tonnes of solid waste every day and BBMP pays Rs 66 per tonne to contractors to transport and process the waste. But ORS will buy the waste at Rs 27 per tonne and process into a recycling unit. The BBMP can expect more than Rs one crore revenue from the power plant,” he said.
Demonstration plant
ORS has already established a demonstration plant at Solapur and a separate commercial plant to process 300 tonne solid waste per day. The plant is expected to operate from May 2011. Work at Mandur is expected to begin in early February.
‘Municipalika’ on the second day covered issues including waste water management, solid waste management, renewable energy and integrated urban transportation. One of the speakers at the event, Amrendra Kumar, founder and missionary of Clean Credit, explained the monetary incentives in waste management system.
“Unless you add value to waste, it will not be considered important. Clean Credit conducted their experiment at the IIM’s Business Festival where trash was not only segregated but also deposited into the right bins to redeem the amount by the consumer,” he said.
Basically, Clean Credit assigned significant residual monetary value of Re one to every unit of waste by tagging them with a sticker mark. So, every consumer deposited waste to redeem the amount at the event, he added.
Latest technologies
Various private companies involved in manufacturing civic equipment such as garbage collection trucks, solid waste processing units and water filtration process units, showcased their latest technologies at the symposium. All the civic agencies under the Urban Development department had set up impressive stalls displaying their nature of work.