Despite space crunch, Sandhurst Road and Mohammed Ali Road, which fall in ward B of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), have got a waste processing unit with two composting machines to process wet waste at source.
The two machines, each capable of processing 2.5 metric tonnes (MT), will compost around 5 MT wet waste every day generated from commercial units, such as hotels, as wel as residential societies.
The processing unit will be inaugurated on on March 18, which is Gudi Padwa.
With the BMC taking a number of measures to process waste at source, all wards have been directed to help residents in managing waste within the wards.
As most of commercial units in B ward, namely hotels, do not have a place to process the waste they generate, the composting units would help them in addition to housing societies.
Udaykumar Shiroorkar, assistant commissioner of B ward, said while the composting units will help residents to manage waste within the ward, the civic body will ensure that segregation of wet and dry waste takes place at source, which means that housing societies have to segregate it before dumping.
The B ward generates around 160 MT waste every day. However, the ward has been using a number of processes to manage waste. In the last one and half years, the B ward has kept around 1,500 tonnes of empty tender coconut shells from reaching landfills. The waste is shredded, dried and treated and used as fertilisers.
NOTHING WASTED
- At present, B ward has a shredding unit where 5-6 tonnes of tender coconut shells are broken to bits daily.
- The shreds are sent to Badlapur where they are processed to make fertilisers and other products, officials said.
