A day after a massive fire broke out at east Delhi's Ghazipur landfill site, the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) is planning to set up a waste-to-energy plant in the area. EDMC Mayor Neema Bhagat said on Sunday that the department will soon set up a waste-to-energy plant to tackle all the problems happening at the Ghazipur landfill site in the last few days.
The corporation has set the ball rolling to set ing up a waste-to-energy plant of 2,000 MT capacity at the Ghazipur landfill site.
A fire was reported at the massive landfill on Saturday evening. The landfill had partially collapsed, triggering a fatal accident, recently. Bhagat said the corporation was concerned about such fire incidents and the idea now was to "recycle maximum garbage" and "leave minimum trash for dumping".
The blaze at the landfill site was extinguished in the early hours of Sunday after over seven hours of fire-fighting operations, a fire official said. The 45-m landfill was shut down following an order by Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Anil Baijal in the wake of the collapse incident in which two persons were killed.
The landfill site was saturated in 2002. The civic body said it had been looking for an alternative site for long, but a clearance from the NGT was needed. The EDMC manages the landfill site that was started in 1984 and is spread over 29 acres.
According to officials, the permissible height for a garbage dump is 20 m. Every day, 2,500-3000 metric tonnes of garbage is dumped at the Ghazipur site.
"We have taken action on disposal of the landfill and have begun the process of setting up a waste-to-energy plant, having a capacity to process 2,000 MT of garbage. Besides, we have also initiated a plan, whereby garbage generated by 2,500 families in Mayur Vihar - Phase I area would be converted to compost. So, the idea is to leave as less garbage as possible for dumping," Bhagat added.
7-HOUR FIGHT
- The blaze at the landfill site was extinguished in the early hours of Sunday after over seven hours of fire-fighting operations, a fire official said.
