Municipal commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey on Monday informed that in order to check the quality of the compost and Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) which is being made in the waste management plant at Shishambada, officials are going to test the quality of the formed products.
Pandey said, “The garbage that gets collected from the city gets deposited in the waste management plant. It is the duty of the appointed employees to separate types of garbage there. Like the dry waste, wet waste and medical waste like a syringe, medicines are kept separate from the garbage and further the other process follows. In order to check this, we took samples of the RDF and compost from the plant.”
Adding in this he said, “The samples are given to Sri Ram Labs and report will likely reach us within 15 days. We will see if these by products are usable or not as they are used for various purposes.”
It is pertinent to mention here that while the compost is used mainly as manure, the RDF is used for various purposes including use alongside traditional fuels in power plants. The MCD sells RDF and compost to the government or private firms as per its uses.