Aiming to dispose of maximum quantity of garbage generated daily in the Capital, the three Municipal Corporations of Delhi (MCDs) have announced to develop “engineered landfill sites” in each of the civic agencies. The Corporations have chalked out a 10-year long plan and have claimed that if materialised the move will not only solve garbage dumping issue at landfill sites but will also help in disposing of over a billion tonnes of garbage stored at four landfill sites in the city.
North Corporation’s leader of the House Vijay Prakash Pandey said the sanitary landfill sites have overflowed and the corporation is looking for new sites to dispose city’s garbage.
“We have asked the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for new lands in all three Corporations so we could put forward our plan.”
Under the proposed plan, the corporations have claimed 100 per cent Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) efficiency with ensuring collection of waste from door-to-door. Segregated garbage collection, mechanical sweeping of roads and hygenic/efficient transportation to the landfill sites are also under consideration.
“The plan has included garbage recycling and treatment facilities. landfill sites will be equipped with new technology for collection, odour reduction, process and treatment of solid waste, reclamation and extraction from existing sites,” said Pandey.
In a bid to execute the plan, civic agencies have been mulling to construct waste-to-energy plants which will run by Refused Derived Fuel (RFD). The agencies, with World Bank assistance, have also announced to carry feasibility study of gas recovery and reuse from the sites and for this MoU has been signed with the GAIl.
Under gas recovery and reuse initiative methane will be extracted from garbage and will be converted in to CNG. Under treatment facilities construction of compost plants and construction and demolition (C&D) waste processing unit are also in cards. The Corporations have claimed to work on at least eight compost and C&D waste plants across the city.
“We will have to develop new sites having 85 to 100 per cent capacity to dispose of dumped material daily. Additionally, we need to dispose of stored material from existing sites so we could reclaim the lands and could develop additional “engineered landfill sites,” said Pandey, adding that to achieve the target we have been working on Delhi Cleanliness and Sanitation Bylaws.