Bioremediation of garbage in full swing at Bhagtanwala dump

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 4

Bioremediation of garbage at the Bhagtanwala dump is going on in full swing nowadays. Officials of the health wing of the Municipal Corporation claimed that they had processed more than 26,000 tonnes of garbage during the past few weeks. There are five machines which are functional at the dump site. The solid waste management company, AVERDA, would add some more machines to speed up the bioremediation process.

According to information, a team of the National Green Tribunal is expected to visit the dump at Bhagtanwala. Officials of the MC are on toes to implement the instructions of the NGT before the visit of the team. Last year, the NGT had imposed a penalty on the MC and asked it to initiate the processing of garbage, construct the boundary wall around the dump site and develop a green belt in the area.

There are around 30-foot-high garbage heaps in around 20 acres at Bhagtanwala. There is around 15 lakh MT garbage on the site. The solid waste management company, hired by the MC, has been doing bioremediation of garbage since October. They are using three-trimble machines and a ballistic separator.

The MC has planned to install a plant to convert garbage to green coal and process all the garbage within two years.

Dr Ajay Kanwar, Municipal Health Officer, said, “We are processing the garbage with five machines and the work is going on without any disruption. The company will add more machines soon. The wall around the dump has been constructed. We are focusing on the dump site and hopefully we will remove all garbage in record time.”