State’s first material recovery facility in rural area comes up at Nitte
The Hindu
The facility is slated to process 10 tonnes of dry waste from 41 gram panchayats in four taluks
Taking a big stride towards scientific handling of and ensuring value addition to dry waste, the Udupi Zilla Panchayat is all set to commission a material recovery facility to process up to 10 tonnes of dry waste per day covering 41 gram panchayats. The facility is said to be the first in rural Karnataka. Trial run at the facility set up at Padavu in Nitte village of Karkala taluk on one acre of land is already on where about three tonnes of dry waste is being processed every day. This, according to Udupi Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Y Naveen Bhat, will help reduce the burden of dry waste segregation on gram panchayats besides adding value to dry waste. Panchayats, at present, segregate dry waste at their solid and liquid waste resource management (SLRM) facilities deploying manual labour. The Nitte facility gets dry waste from 27 gram panchayats in Karkala taluk, 10 in Kaup taluk, three in Udupi taluk and one in Hebri taluk covering 72,000 houses and 7,000 commercial establishments. While dry waste from the existing system is sold to scrap dealers, the processed waste at the facility directly reaches the end user thereby saving multiple incidences of transportation. Furthermore the processed waste commands a higher price against unprocessed waste.More Related News