MCD gets land to set up plant at Ghazipur to tackle fresh waste

New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has secured about 10 acres from DDA near the Integrated Freight Complex in Ghazipur for a processing facility for fresh waste.Officials said the facility will be able to process at least 800 metric tonnes of waste per day. “While the fresh waste processing plan will be set up on 5 out of 10 acres, on the remaining 5 acres we will set up a biogas plant. The two facilities would contribute towards reducing the burden on the Ghazipur landfill by diverting fresh municipal waste,” the official said.Five plants will be set up in Delhi by Oct-end to process up to 5,900 MT of fresh waste each day. The remaining four plants include one facility on a 12-acre reclaimed site at the Bhalswa landfill that will process 1,800 tonnes of fresh waste daily. Another plant will come up on the 6.6-acre silt disposal site at Singhola, with a capacity of 700 tonnes per day. At the Okhla landfill, 10 acres of reclaimed land will be used to process 1,400 tonnes of fresh waste daily. At Narela–Bawana, around 10 acres are earmarked for the facility from a 35-acre parcel. This unit will process 1,200 tonnes.“We have completed the tendering process and issued a work order. These projects will contribute to the time-bound flattening of landfills, as the dumping of fresh waste can be stopp,” the official said.Explaining the need for the facilities, the official said legacy waste accumulated at landfills over several years is largely dry and contains around 60% inert material, which can be processed using existing trommel machines. “However, daily household waste is mostly wet and mixed, making it unsuitable for bio-mining through existing trommels,” the official added.To bridge this gap, MCD plans to install large-capacity trommel units designed to handle wet waste. Delhi’s daily waste generation has risen to 12,847 MT. Of this, approximately 7,642 MT/day is processed at the four waste-to-energy plants.