East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) bagged Order-of-Merit Awards from SKOCH on Friday. The civic body received the award under solid waste management category for its construction and demolition waste processing plant.
Chief Engineer of EDMC Pradeep Kumar Khandelwal received the award on behalf of the civic body.
EDMC’s construction and demolition waste plant situated at Shastri Park processes 500 tonnes of construction waste per day and convert it into useful products such as bricks, stone, sand, pavement and footpaths tiles, drain covers, kern stone etc based on advance wet processing technology.
A senior EDMC official said that the project is being run by the civic body on 2.5 acre land through its private partner. The processed material in the plant ranges from cement concrete, bricks, cement plaster, steel, rubble, stone, timber/wood, clay etc. “Poor management of construction waste is one the major causes of air pollution in Delhi. Construction and demolition waste processing plants like these can help in curbing air pollution to a large extent,” he said.
The official further said that this plant is in line with Swachh Bharat Mission and Smart City. “Solid waste management is one of the biggest challenges the country and project like this will help cities get rid of illegal dumping of construction materials in public places,” he said.