Thursday, 14 April 2011

Green Delhi


The first scientific landfill site in the city will be functional from the next month. Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is going to make Narela – Bawana landfill site operational. The set up of this landfill site will be helpful to bring down burden on the three site – Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa. This project will be completed in two phases. In first phase the solid waste will be disposed scientifically in next phase dumped garbage will be converted into energy. In this site 1,300 metric tones of waste will be sorted and will be used to obtain refuse derived fuel (RDF) for industrial use, manure and recyclable material.  
            The cost of the project in first phase will be seventy crore rupees and in second phase will be three seventy eight crore rupees. The site will have facility for material recovery; treating leach ate and trapping harmful gases and to make RDF.

Tuesday, 5 April 2011

BIO REMEDIATION PROJECT: BUDDHA NALA LUDHIANA


Indian ministry of Environment and Forestry has decided to launch in situ bio- remediation project in Buddha Nala in Ludhiana. This project will stop the industrial and domestic effluent discharge in the Buddha Nala.

The MoEF will try to create filters trough which untreated water will be passed. The effluent will be treated with microbial consortium. The treatment of effluent with microbial consortium will  be helpful to reduce BOD “Bio – chemical oxygen demand” and COD “chemical oxygen demand”.
            The MoEF is expecting to reduce BOD by 40% along with foul odor. In this project only microbes will be used and there will be no use of genetically modified organisms. Buddha Nala project is the largest bioremediation project of our country. The cost of the whole project will be funded by National River Conservation Directorate, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India