KMC to pick junk from dry garbage, sell to increase revenue

Kanpur: Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC) is preparing itself to pick junk from dry garbage and sell it to increase its income. A material recovery facility center will be set up soon for this purpose.
Municipal commissioner Akshay Tripathi has recently directed the KMC officials to make preparations for setting up the facility center at Panki Bhau Singh garbage treatment plant.
According to KMC sources, around 10 lakh metric tonne of garbage is dumped daily at Panki Bhau Singh garbage treatment plant. At the proposed material recovery facility center, junk like steel, plastic, paper polythene etc would be separated. Polythene to be turned into granules by machines would be used in construction of roads.
Moreover, thin and thick plastics will be used in making plastic balls while steel and glass may be sold in junk, the source added. Executive engineer RK Singh said that KMC had already floated tenders for setting up the material recovery facility center.
At present, the garbage treatment center of Panki Bhau Singh is converting 500 metric tonnes of wet garbage into manure per day which is being provided free of cost to farmers through the agriculture department, Singh said. Efforts were being made to convert 1000 metric tonne of wet garbage into manure per day, he added.
The enhanced capacity besides disposing of the garbage would also increase KMC’s income. After production of manure and plastic granules, around 10 percent garbage would be left for disposal, he added. Singh said that modern garbage dumping houses were being constructed from where garbage would be sent to the treatment plant.
Out of around 1100 tonnes of dry and wet garbage generated in the city daily, KMC lifts around 900 tonne. According to the municipal commissioner, efforts were being made to lift the entire 1100 tonne garbage daily and transfer the same to Panki Bhau Singh garbage plant the same day.