Friday, 02 July 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The Municipal Corporation of Rishikesh (MCR) has started the treatment of 2.71 lakh cubic metres of legacy waste at the trenching ground in the Govindnagar area of the city. The Rishikesh mayor Anita Mamgain inaugurated the legacy waste treatment plant on Thursday. This plant will process and treat the garbage piled up at the site for the last 40 years with biomining technique. According to the officials, Rishikesh is the first city to use biomining for the legacy waste treatment in Uttarakhand.
The officials informed that this technique will take at least six to eight months to treat the garbage of about 2.71 lakh cubic metres which is spread across the four-hectare land in the Govindnagar area. Since the garbage mainly consists of glass, rubber, fibre, plastic and leachate which are harder to process than biodegradable garbage, biomining is the best method to process and dispose of such garbage effectively without damaging the environment, informed the MCR officials.
The biomining of the accumulated garbage is being done by a private company hired by the corporation under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode. The company recently did a trial after machine installation at the Govindnagar site to check the efficiency of the waste treatment process through the installed machines and after the successful trial, the mayor inaugurated the work of legacy waste treatment on Thursday.
