Rishikesh to be first city in U’khand to use biomining for legacy waste treatment

The Municipal Corporation of Rishikesh (MCR) will commence the biomining of legacy waste piled up since the last 40 years by the end of this month. The installation of the required pieces of machinery has already started at the dumping site where the legacy waste has accumulated across a four-hectare land in the Govindnagar area.

According to the tax and revenue superintendent of the corporation, Ramesh Rawat, there is about 2.71 lakh cubic metres of legacy waste accumulated at the dumping site and biomining is the best way to effectively dispose of it. He informed that the corporation had already made all the arrangements but due to certain pending procedures, the corporation could not start the work earlier this month.

Now the MCR has all the required permissions from the State government following which, the corporation has directed a company to commence legacy waste disposal project under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode, said Rawat. He asserted that the installation of different types of machinery for biomining has started at the dumping site and the disposal of the legacy waste would start by the last week of this month. According to him, Rishikesh would be the first city in Uttarakhand to use the biomining method for legacy waste disposal. However, he added that since the treatment of legacy waste mostly includes glass, rubber, fibre, plastic and even leachate takes time, the proper disposal through biomining will take at least six months.

Thursday, 11 March 2021 | PNS | Dehradun