PUNE: Work is on full swing to build an enhanced common biomedical waste treatment facility at Kailas crematorium within six months at an estimated cost of Rs 12 crore.
The plant will be equipped with an incinerator designed to tackle
Covid-19 waste. Once operational, it will be able to process 14,400kg of biomedical waste daily.
The existing facility, also located on the same premises, can treat 4,000kg of biomedical waste daily.
“In addition to handling the 14,400kg of incinerable waste daily, the upcoming plant will also process 6,400kg of plastic trash as well,” said Pradeep Mulay, founder-director of Passco Environmental Solutions, which runs the facility at Kailas Crematorium.
The firm has sought the clearances required for the expansion. “The All-India Common Facility Association has appealed to the Central Pollution Control Board to find an alternative treatment for plastic-based personal protective equipment,” said Sunil Dandawate, vice-president of the CBWTF Association of India — a pan-India body of biomedical waste unit operators.
“When we incinerate plastic PPE kits, they emit unburnt particulate matter in the form of black smoke,” Dandawate added.