The Ghaziabad municipal company’s extra municipal commissioner submitted a report after finishing the inquiry into dealing with each day stable waste on the waste administration unit or “garbage manufacturing unit” at Ret Mandi on Thursday. Municipal commissioner Nitin Gaur ordered the inquiry after metropolis mayor Sunita Dayal visited the unit on Tuesday and located a number of irregularities in dealing with each day stable waste.
“The inquiry has been accomplished, and it has revealed that the previous vendor performing guide stable waste segregation on the website has left. A brand new vendor has been lately assigned the job, and they’re setting up a plant to separate the dry and moist waste. The setup will take about two extra weeks to full. We may even direct all staff on the website to put on protecting gloves and face masks. Different points raised by the mayor will be addressed as properly,” mentioned Gaur.
“The moist waste will be transformed to manure, whereas the recyclable dry waste will be faraway from the unit’s new plant. The non-recyclable dry waste will be despatched to our processing website in Morta, the place one other vendor will purchase it to be used in highway development or different actions,” Gaur added.
The unit’s full operations will resume in two weeks, mentioned civic officers with data of the matter.
The waste administration unit at Ret Mandi opened in 2022 and handles roughly 250-300 metric tonnes of stable waste per day generated by the company’s metropolis zone. Town’s different waste administration unit in Sihani processes each day waste from the Kavi Nagar zone.
On Tuesday, the mayor inspected the location and declared it a “dumping floor” slightly than a waste processing facility. She additionally mentioned that the employees on the website weren’t carrying protecting gear akin to masks or gloves and {that a} playschool for his or her kids was closed.
The civic body arrange the 2 models to deal with each day stable waste as a result of town presently has no facility to scientifically course of the 1,400 metric tonnes of stable waste it generates each day.
There was a proposal to construct a waste-to-energy plant in Galand with a processing capability of two,300 metric tonnes of waste per day for the previous a number of years. Nonetheless, no development has begun due to residents’ opposition.
The proposed plant will possible deal with waste from the Ghaziabad municipal company space, Hapur district, and Dasna and Khoda cities.