Years Of Trash Accumulation At Its Dumping Site Getting Melted Now In Mysuru
The huge trash kept on adding at the dumping site since 2006-07 owing to no rules framed on Solid Waste Management.
BENGALURU: The lone trash dumping site in Mysuru city accumulated as much as 6 lakh tonnes until 2022 and the huge accumulation of trash remained unprocessed for about 15 years before steps were initiated by Mysore City Corporation (MCC) to process the huge pile of trash to bring it down to 4.95 lakh tonnes trash processed as on today. The dumping site is in Vidyaranyapuram of the city.
“Now one see the huge pile of thrashed is coming down,” said an official attached to City Corporation on Wednesday while exuded confidence that the remaining part of trash piled up at the site which stands to about 1.05 lakh tonnes accumulated till 2022 would be processed by October this year.
The huge trash kept on adding at the dumping site since 2006-07 owing to no rules framed on Solid Waste Management. Once the rules for Solid Waste Management came into force, things started to change and then the initiation of steps process accumulated trash at the dumping site in Mysuru city.
However, the dumping site reports another 1.69 lakh tonnes of trash remain to be processed and the official said remaining trash at the dumping site accumulated after 2022 till date would be processed under the Union Government’s Dumping Site Remediation Acceleration programme.
“We will get approval for the processing of remaining trash at the site. Once the remaining trash is processed the dumping site will be cleared of hillock-like looking trash accumulation,” a City Corporation official said.
Mysuru city records about 500 tonnes of solid waste a day while it rises to about 600 tonnes a day and to make the processing easier, City Corporation adds two processing units at Kesare and another at Rayanakere in addition to an existing processing unit at Vidyaranyapuram. Vidyaranyapuram and Kesare processing units can process 200 tonnes of trash a day while Rayanakere processing unit takes up about 150 tonnes a day.
To get the accumulated thrash processed as early as possible, City Corporation officials said Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is taking to biogas production and tenders process is on. Once,. BPCL starts its biogas production to ensure trash cleared faster since the BPCL bio gas plant requires about 150 tonnes of trash a day to solve Mysuru’s waste management.
