04k interlocking tiles from debris

Kanpur: Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC) will be using debris from houses, which lie at road sides in various localities of the city, in manufacturing interlocking tiles. The KMC besides using the tiles in its development works would also sell them in the open market.
It will soon purchase a machine at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore for disposing of the debris. While carrying out renovation, the house owners in the city generally throw debris on road sides. Though KMC slaps fine on house owners for throwing debris on roads but it failed to deter them from doing so, therefore the municipal commissioner and other officials decided to use it in manufacturing interlocking tiles.
Municipal commissioner Akshay Tripathi said that the machine would be installed at Panki Bhau Singh village where KMC’s garbage disposal plant had been installed. He said the garbage disposal plant uses garbage for making manure and extracting RDF oil from it. “From this month will start disposal of debris too. The KMC will soon purchase machines for disposal of debris and manufacturing interlocking tiles”, he added.
Executive engineer (environment) RK Pal said that a tender would soon be floated to purchase machines for disposing of debris. The machine would separate all ingredients of debris such as brick, cement sand and grit and thereafter would manufacture small size grit and the mixture would be used in manufacturing interlocking tiles. “The mall size grits could also be used in patch work, he added.
The city, he said, generates around 200 tonnes of debris per day. Initially the machines would dispose of around 100 tonnes of debris per day but later their capacity would be increased. All government and semi- government departments would be asked to send their debris to the plant instead of piling it in their premises or throwing it at road sides.
The KMC’s garbage disposal plant had not been in operation since the private sector companies raised their hands in garbage disposal but the municipal commissioner took interest and made the plant operative. At present, it is manufacturing manure and revised defused fuel (RDF) .The manure is provided free of cost to farmers through agriculture department while RDF is sold to Satna Cement Factory.
According to an order of the National Green Tribunal, all power plants which are within a radius of 100 km from the garbage disposal plants should use RDF as fuel. As both Panki power plant and Ghatampur power plant are within the radius they have to purchase 5 percent RDF as fuel for their consumption.