Mumbai: Soon, BMC will process 1,000 MT more garbage daily

The approval comes one month after the BMC shut the second largest dumping ground, in Mulund, which earlier received over 1,500 metric tonne of waste daily. This waste is now routed to the Deonar and Kanjurmarg dumping grounds.

The approval from the State Environment Impact Assessment Committee will now help the civic body process an additional 1,000 metric tonne of waste daily. (File)

Over the coming 15 days, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will begin to process an additional 1,000 metric tonne (MT) of garbage per day, with the state government having given clearances last month for the expansion of the Kanjurmarg dumping ground by 52 hectares. The landfill, in the eastern suburbs, is located in an area that is under the purview of the Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) norms.

In 2016, the BMC had sought an additional 52 hectares in Kanjurmarg for the expansion of the site. The approval from the State Environment Impact Assessment Committee will now help the civic body process an additional 1,000 metric tonne of waste daily. Spread across 65.96 hectares, the Kanjurmarg landfill currently processes 3,000 metric tonne per day, out of the city’s total garbage generation of 7,400 metric tonne per day.

“We have received the approval 15 days back from the state government to expand the dumping ground. We are awaiting some internal permissions, after which we will begin processing the additional waste at the site. We will be setting up bioreactor cells on the additional land,” said a senior civic official from the BMC’s Solid Waste Management department.

The approval comes one month after the BMC shut the second largest dumping ground, in Mulund, which earlier received over 1,500 metric tonne of waste daily. This waste is now routed to the Deonar and Kanjurmarg dumping grounds. Kanjurmarg is the only city landfill, where waste is processed using a bioreactor.

The waste-to-energy plant at the Deonar site being still in a nascent stage with the bidding process underway. The plant will process 3,000 metric tonne of fresh waste. Meanwhile, the contractor appointed for the Mulund landfill will take five years to neutralise the ground’s toxicity where metals, including mercury and lead, are present.

In addition, the Maharashtra government will hand over 38.85 hectare to the BMC to set up a new waste processing unit at Ambernath, in Thane district, within three months. The state government will hand over the remaining 26.71 hectare of the Ambernath plot within a year.

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