The composting unit is to segregate garbage transported to the site and plants to convert organic residue of solid waste to residue derived fuel, domestic or industrial fuel.
“The solid waste management plant will be set up on a Public Private Partnership model,” said Shailesh Kumar Singh, LMC Municipal Commissioner. UPPCB Member Secretary C S Bhatt said, “We have asked them (LMC) for a technical proposal to see how they plan to go about the project.”
At Hardoi Road, the State Pollution Control Authority has cleared 38 hectare for the project. LMC is now awaiting the approval of the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority, authorised to approve environment related projects.
With around 1,300 metric tonne solid waste generated on a daily basis in the city, the proposed site will be used for landfill, facility for composting and tapping methane gases from solid waste.
Other than the land at Hardoi Road, UPPCB has also approved about 10 hectares of Gram Samaj land at Bindauva Pargana village and Mohanlalganj Tehsil. Similarly, around 27 hectare in Palehanda village, Pargana Bijnor, and Kurha Eetgaon village, Prgana Kakori in Tehsil Sadar is in the process of being transferred from the Agricultural to the Urban Development department.
As per the proposal, while Hardoi Road will have the capacity to treat around 600 tonnes of solid waste a day, the plant at Mohanlalganj Tehsil and Sadar will treat around 300 and 600 tonnes of solid waste respectively.
LMC, with no landfill site, currently dumps solid waste at sites near SGPGI, Hardoi Road and Gomti river bank.
