How Noida’s landfill site will be flattened

Noida: It seems the garbage mountain at Noida’s landfill site in Sector 145 is there to stay for at least a year.
This is because, officials said, the remediation plant is currently processing only 750-800 tonnes of wet waste that the city generates on a daily basis, while the landfill site holds two lakh tonnes of unprocessed garbage.
Officials, however, said that AG Enviro, the contractor running the remediation plant, has been asked to double its capacity by November. The Noida Authority has agreed to pay Rs 986 for a tonne to the company.
“The capacity of the plant has to be doubled. It needs to treat 1,500 tonnes daily. The landfill site has to be cleared up and garbage also needs to be treated,” said SC Mishra, senior project engineer (public health).
“The agency has been given time up to November end to set up another plant,” he said.
Of 900 tonnes of waste the city generates daily, 800 tonnes are of wet nature. Through remediation, the wet waste is divided for further use in composting, road construction, horticulture and cement manufacturing.
The major challenge before the Authority is to deal with 100 tonnes of dry waste in the absence of any plant that can help in recycling. The recovery facilities created in the city can tackle only 20 tonnes daily.
Officials said that they are looking to install a 100-tonne dry waste recycling plant “as per the build-operate-transfer model”.
“The vendor will have to generate money through selling recycled items and products. We are in talks with some agencies and will finalise one of them after getting approval from senior officials,” said Mishra.