Guv opens city’s second garbage transfer station

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 22

Governor Punjab and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore inaugurated the second material recovery facility (MRF)-cum-garbage transfer station in the Industrial Area, Phase I, here today.

While addressing the gathering, the Governor appreciated the efforts of Chandigarh Smart City Limited and the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) for strengthening solid waste management in the city. He said with the availability of these MRF stations, the MC can reduce the rush of garbage collection at single point, i.e. in Dadu Majra. With the MRF facility, the segregation system of dry and wet waste will be strengthened.

The Governor said the MC had planned to set up a waste-to-energy plant in Dadu Majra, which seems to be a good step in processing the garbage generated in the city. These facility stations aim at reducing the time and cost involved in collection and transfer of waste too, besides generating income by recovering the reusable and recyclable waste.

Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma said door-to-door waste collection vehicles would bring segregated waste (dry & wet) in different compartments to the facility, which had a dedicated space for sorting out dry waste into different categories like paper, card, recyclable plastics, glass bottles, metal, etc. Dry waste left after the recovery of recyclable materials would be compacted in huge compactors to the compost plant located in Sector 25, Dadu Majra. Weighbridges have been provided for measurement of dry and wet waste within the facility.

He said the MRF facility was equipped with hopper-tippers and compactor capsules for transfer of waste from smaller (3.2 cum) vehicles to capsules where the waste will be compacted to one fifth of the original volume. The volume reduction would save the cost of transportation of waste and space required for the disposal of waste.

KK Yadav, MC Commissioner-cum-CEO, Chandigarh Smart City Limited, said waste from Sector 1, 2, 3,4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, Part 61 will be brought to the MRF-cum-garbage transfer station in the Industrial Area, Phase I.

He said MRF stations would further be equipped with parking and vehicle washing facilities. These will be monitored through 20 CCTV cameras. Each transfer station would have material recovery facility-cum-transfer stations with two conveyer belts for each station, industrial shed, three weighbridge, one wash system, CCTV, mechanical equipment for volume reduction of waste to one fifth of original volumes and nine truck loaded capsules to carry compacted waste to the processing/composting plant site. The total project is being implemented through two contract packages - one for civil and another one for mechanical works.