With the Tiruchi Corporation asking hotels, restaurants and marriage halls to set up solid waste management systems to process and dispose biodegradable waste at source, Hotel Sangam here has installed a machine to compost its wet waste.
The hotel has invested ₹10 lakh to install the machine, which was said to have a capacity to compost about 250 kg of degradable waste into manure in 24 hours. Corporation Commissioner N. Ravichandran, who inspected and commissioned the machine on the hotel premises on Monday, commended the management for coming forward to process their waste.
The Corporation had been pressing upon all establishments to go in for similar machines and extend their cooperation to the civic body towards making the city. All institutions which generate more than 50 kg of waste a day would have to process and recycle them in their own premises.
The Corporation has already conducted expos showcasing the technologies and machines available for processing the waste. The civic body was collecting the house hold waste door-to-door and collected waste was being processed at 29 micro compost yards, he said.
C. Murali Krishnan, Executive Director, Hotel Sangam, said he came across the machine at the expo organised by the Corporation and decided to purchase it.