Noida: Double shifts at waste plant, to receive 300 tonne daily

NOIDA: A waste plant in Sector 80 will now run in double shifts to process the 28,000 tonne of debris that will be transported from the twin towers' demolition site over the next three months.
While Edifice Engineering, the company that brought down the towers, will be responsible for transporting the debris to the plant, the developer, Supertech, will bear the cost of processing the construction and demolition waste.

The plant is being run by Ramky Reclamation and Recycling Pvt Ltd, which has been given a contract by the Noida Authority for 15 years. While the plant has a capacity to process 850 tonne of C&D waste daily, it has been processing 350-400 tonne collected from different sources in the city in one shift.
To process the additional amount of debris, the plant will now run 16 hours daily from 8 hours earlier. Manpower will also be increased in keeping with the shift. Of the 16 hours, 12 hours will be used in processing the waste while the remaining four hours will be dedicated for maintenance of the plant, said Mukesh Dhiman, the project head at Ramky.
About 250-300 tonne of debris will come to the plant in 12-15 dumpers every day. "At the site itself, steel and iron bars will be segregated and only concrete will be sent to the plant in block sizes of up to 200mm. At the plant, debris will be converted into recycled aggregates of 10mm, 20mm and 40mm sizes, and manufacturing and coarse sand. A portion of the debris will be converted into pebble blocks, tiles and bricks. The remaining will be used in road and housing projects. For roads, the debris will be used as a base on the surface, while in housing projects, they can be used anywhere except for load-bearing structures like roofs and linters," Dhiman said.
The work of separating the debris from the iron bars will mostly be done in the afternoon when there are fewer people in the society. About 4,000 tonne of bars will be retrieved and sold in the market.
The total weight of the debris is estimated to be around 80,000 tonne. Of this, 48,000 tonne will be used to fill the basement and surroundings.
Uttkarsh Mehta, a partner at Edifice, said his company would bear the expenses of transporting the debris (about Rs 2,500 per dumper) while Supertech will pay Rs 156 per tonne to the Noida Authority for processing the C&D waste.
Once a dumper reaches the plant, it will first go through a weighbridge for the quantity of the waste and its details will be sent to the Noida Authority through an online system.
Now that the quantity of C&D waste is set to increase at the plant, Ramky is looking for customers for the processed trash. Dhiman said products would be available at a price that is 30-40% less than the market rate. The plant is spread over 5 acres and became functional in 2019.