City’s first biomethanation plant to come up in Industrial Area

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 6

UT Adviser Vijay Kumar Dev today laid the foundation stone of the first biomethanation plant of 5-tonne capacity at the Industrial Area, Phase I.

The plant will get segregated kitchen/organic wet waste from hotels and biodegradable waste from the vegetable market, Sector 26. Processing of the waste will lead to formation of methane gas, which will be used to generate electricity (150 streetlights or 400 LED streetlights can be run with the electricity so generated). The fertiliser generated as residue will be used in horticulture.

Second such plant will be set up in Shanti Kunj in Sector 16.

At present, the garbage collected from the city is taken to the garbage processing plant.

However, certain kind of garbage, including horticulture waste and food waste, is not accepted by the plant. At present, it is being taken to the dumping ground. With Chandigarh being a landlocked city and the dumping ground filling up fast, there is no alternative site available.

At today’s function, Dev said kitchen waste should be segregated within households and it was the responsibility of the door-to-door collector to create four sections on their cycle carts so as to carry organic, wet, dry and other waste separately to sehaj safai kendras.

On the occasion, Mayor Poonam Sharma, MC Commissioner Bhawna Garg, Joint Commissioner Rajiv Gupta and area councillor Satish Kainth were present.