16/06/2017
PUNE: The Pune
Cantonment Board (PCB) is eyeing a cheaper and better alternative to disposing
waste. It involves conversion of municipal waste into
"energy-rich" fuel pillets.
PCB officials said an Indo-American consortium has shown
interest in this venture, needing about three acre land, and with a shorter
set-up time for the plant that would convert solid waste to fuel pellets. Such
pellets have varied industrial uses. They are most commonly used in boilers and
crushers.
Board officials said the new plan is much more affordable, and
the plants can also be decentralised. "There are two such plants in India -one
in Delhi and the other in Madhya Pradesh," Suresh Jagtap, head of the
solid waste management department of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)
said.
"If we can find sites in each of the eight wards, we can
set up smaller plants, rather than one large plant," a senior PCB official
said.
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