Indore: The cleanest city of the country is now facing the problem of garbage - but of a different nature. Despite taking various measures to ensure on spot disposal of wet waste, the civic body officials are finding it difficult to process.They have achieved 100 per cent segregation of garbage at door-to-door level, but they are not able to handle huge amount of wet waste which is generated in city on a daily basis.Wet or organic waste usually takes 10-15 days to decompose, while the amount of wet garbage which is begin generated in the city is comparatively very high.This has forced civic body to look for ideas in which waste processing could be done at the local level. Finding no avenue to keep the wet municipal waste, civic body has now decided to set up biomethanation plant at its garbage transfer station to process it on the spot and generate electricity from it.The civic body on an average collects around 1100 metric tonne waste on a daily basis. Of this, around 600 metric tonne is wet waste which is collected separately.Asad Warsi, a waste management consultant with Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC), said that this plant will be installed near Star Square area of the city at an estimate cost of Rs25 lakh."It will have multiple benefits for not only processing the organic waste or wet garbage but also produce electricity which could be utilized for operation of machinery," said Warsi.He said that the machine will process at least 200kg in one cycle and biogas generated in this plant will be converted into electricity by a generator set which will run on biogas. "Once processed, the end product will be compost which can be sold out in the market," he added.Officials said that they aim to achieve on spot disposal of at least 70 per cent of wet waste which is collected from the city. "This is a part our measures being taken up to optimize our waste collection system, besides it will also save transportation cost of this waste to the trenching gourd," they added.

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