NEW DELHI: The city's first scientific landfill site at Narela-Bawana Road will be operational next week. With a capacity to handle 1200 metric tonnes of waste every day, the sanitory landfill (SLF) site will take the load off other landfill site, which are over-saturated. Here, solid waste will be segregated and processed to obtain Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) for industrial use, manure and recyclable material among others.
"Of the 1200 metric tonnes of garbage that will be transported here, only 200 metric tones will be dumped at the site. All the rest will be processed," said Delhi mayor Rajni Abbi, who called a meeting to discuss the situation on Monday. Garbage collected from the Rohini and Civil Lines zones of the MCD will be dumped at this site. The civic agency has also decided to procure three new bulldozers to level solid waste at SLF sites. Built at a cost of Rs 70 crore, the site will have facilities for material recovery, treating leachate (toxic water discharged from garbage during decomposing), trapping harmful gases and RDF. The leachate will be collected and treated before being released into storm water drains.
"Solid waste will be segregated and all material such as paper, metal and cloth will be recycled. Bio-degradable material will be sent to the composting plant while the rest will be used to produce refuse derived fuel. All the waste from these processes will be dumped at the landfill siite. The RDF produced from the site can be used by industries," said a senior MCD official.
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