Indian waste contains a higher proportion of organic waste than several western countries and food is more curry-like which makes it difficult to handle, explained Shah.
The machines are designed to work efficiently even if the material is not all organic. For the decentralised processing of waste from the vegetable, fruit and flower market, a biomethanation facility--which converts organic waste to methane--has been set up opposite the market.
About 20 tonnes of waste is collected every day, and converted into kg of bio compressed natural gas bioCNG , said Subhash of Mahindra Waste to Energy Solutions Ltd.
The company has a contract with the IMC to operate the plant for 15 years. The gas produced is used to run city buses, and sold as cooking fuel to hotels and the Indian Institute of Management, at a subsidised rate. Waste from the flower market is kept separately tons a day , and mixed with slurry to produce compost. The biomethanation facility opposite the vegetable and fruit market.
Organic waste is converted to fuel used by city buses and as cooking fuel. Every night, km of main roads are swept by machines, footpaths and road dividers are washed by a water mist. This uses litres of water every night, most of it recycled water from the three sewage treatment plants set up by the IMC, Warsi said.
Internal roads that make up the rest of the 2, km are swept, and the waste is collected in gunny bags, collected by vans and taken to the waste processing facility. In the first six months of road cleaning between 20, and 30, metric tonnes of dust was cleared, said Warsi, the consultant. In a decade, Indore, will produce 2, metric tonnes of waste daily, up from the current 1, metric tonnes, according to estimates, said Warsi.
The aim is to reduce this waste and keep it at 1, metric tonnes, especially by reducing plastic waste and usable food waste, he added. In , of cities with a population of over ,, Indore ranked first. Indore was ranked first in , up from 25 in , a position it has maintained for over a year. Though the project was originally pushed by the then municipal commissioner Manish Singh, the programme has continued to be implemented and improved by the current commissioner, Asheesh Singh, experts and residents said, showing that the programme is not dependent on a single person.
Further, segregating waste has become a habit; residents were surprised when this reporter questioned them about garbage segregation and collection. Indore has made a capital investment of Rs crore into the programme, and spent Rs crore on its operations in FY , Warsi said.
The programme collected Rs 27 crore in user fees, while the rest of the operation expenditure was funded by property taxes, Warsi said. The Proposal was scored based on the quality of city-level criteria like vision and goals, strategic plan etc. About Us Indore is one of the cities that were selected in the first top 20 Smart cities. Geographical Information System GIS is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all smart city projects on map.
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