German team comes up with dry garbage disposal system

KANPUR: An Indo-German delegation on Friday visited the city, and gave a presentation of disposal of dry garbage containing plastic waste. The delegation also met Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials and explained to them about a technique for disposing of plastic waste in the city.
The delegation comprised Florin Skindler, leader of the German delegation and expert in sea garbage and waste management, Axcel Barchman, representative of German Federal Ministry of environment, nature conservation, and nuclear safety, Satya Narayan Narra, international solid waste management expert, and Majoomdar, international solid waste management expert.
The delegation met municipal commissioner Santosh Kumar Sharma at the auditorium on Friday noon. The municipal commissioner told the delegation that the city generated around 1400 tons of garbage having around 40 percent plastic waste whose disposal was a big challenge.
Sharma informed the delegation members that recently India had signed an agreement with Germany to deal with the challenge of sea waste.
“After the concern expressed over sea waste by the members of G-20 countries at its summit, a project was chalked out in which Port Blair and Kochi were included, Sharma further said. It was also insisted to include Kanpur as it is situated on the bank of Ganga which is highly polluted in the city, he added. “Efforts are being made to clean Ganga at private and government levels. If an agreement takes place, plastic waste of Ganga can be disposed of in a better way", he further said. The German team gave a presentation about the ways garbage is disposed of in Germany and how sea plastic waste is disposed of and how it is reused. The Delegation also visited modern garbage dump houses at Chunniganj and Janta Nagar.