New Town set to get 15 waste segregation stations

KOLKATA: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) is coming up with waste segregation stations at 15 locations in the township to facilitate daily waste collection and disposal. After waste is collected from households in the morning, it will be brought to the units and then, in the evening, it will be disposed of after segregation.
The transfer units are coming up near Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Tank No. 12, Shapoorji Housing and 18 Tola Building More among others. An NKDA official said the construction was over for most of the units and the operation would begin soon. "So far, the daily waste collected from New Town households is dumped near Dhapa. Once the segregation stations function, conservancy workers will bring the garbage there. The waste will be segregated before being disposed of at a dumping site," said an NKDA official.
The NKDA is also installing wheeled waste bins, each of 120-litre capacity, in the township to collect biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste. "The authorities are sending a considerable amount of kitchen or wet waste to the bio-methane gas plant where it is being converted into energy. The daily dry waste will be segregated for recycling and the rest will be sent to a dumping site near Dhapa," said an official.
In neighbouring Salt Lake, the BMC is waiting for financial approval to set up a centrally operated waste-to-energy conversion unit on a three-acre plot handed to them by Central Park opposite Poura Bhavan. BMC is also working on setting up organic waste convertors in Salt Lake and Rajarhat.