Bangalore: December 1st is the deadline to stop sending garbage to the controversial landfill, Mandur. The deadline is approaching. BBMP is fast tracking its efforts to meet the deadline. It is learnt that the garbage being sent to Mandur has already been reduced from 1,800 tonnes every day to 1,200 tonnes.
Reports say that, of the four garbage processing units for the city that were approved, work on two is progressing well and one of the plants with a 500 per day capacity is likely to be commissioned by the month end and a second by end January.
One of the remaining plants is set to come up in Nelamangala on the land of the company supplying the same and it is expected to be ready in two years. It is learnt that the BBMP has requested the company to take up composting till the waste-to-energy unit is ready to be commissioned.
Sources say that in the meanwhile, the BBMP has doubled the processing capacity at Karnataka Compost Development Corporation (KCDC) from 300 tonnes a day. This has enabled the KCDC to clear 75 per cent of accumulated waste.
The BBMP’s ambitious waste managment plans include setting up garbage processing plants in each Assembly constituency to ensure that the city’s waste is not dumped outside.
