Bhubaneswar | Nov 02, 2016: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) will soon have a facility to treat construction and demolition (C&D) waste in the city in a scientific manner so that the wastes can be treated as raw materials for reuse and recycle.
As per Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules, 2016, waste resulting from construction, re-modelling, repair and demolition of any civil structure of individual, organisation or authority, who generates construction and demolition waste such as building materials, debris and rubble has the responsibility to handle it in a proper manner.
The proposed facility would come into existence in public-private partnership (PPP) mode. Already cities like Delhi and other metros have got such facilities where C&D wastes are reused to produce by products, which are again fetching buyers.
The reuse of C&D waste also ensures reduction in usage of natural resources like sand and stone and enhances their conservation. While it helps in reducing sand mining from river beds, it can also reduce the burden on the landfill sites saving high-end urban land. The C&D reuse facility can also help in reducing air pollution level.
In the BMC Council meeting yesterday the C&D issue was discussed at length and the House was informed that the request for proposal (RFP) will be prepared so that PPP partners can be roped in.
It can be noted that the city approximately producing around 200 metric tonne of C&D waste in a day. BMC has also earmarked two sites for the dumping of C&D waste at Patia and Kargil Basti.
The dumping of C&D waste at Kargil Basti will serve the dual purpose as a water body created due to an abandoned laterite mining site will be covered by the dumping activity. The Airports Authority of India on a number of occasions had requested the civic authorities to fill the site as birds coming to the artificial water body are posing a threat to aeroplanes near their flight path of the Biju Patnaik International Airport. The site near Patia railway station is also an abandoned laterite mining site.
(Source: http://www.orissadiary.com/)