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WASTE SOLUTIONS

the plant generates 110-120 six members, including the competition emerge; at the
units of electricity every day, transport team) rushes to moment, Yasasu often finds
a part of which is used to neighbourhood restaurants, itself to be the only bidder for
power 68 street-lights in the which willingly hand over projects.
area. By saving on the cost their food waste. Bhand is also working on
of waste transportation (to a a model for Vellore in Tamil
distant landfill) and cutting the What’s in the future? Nadu, in which hotel owners
cost of street-lighting, Poplai At present, Yasasu is will pay a subscription fee
estimates that this has saved executing 10 projects across to have their food waste
the municipal corporation India, and has brought down collected and transported to a
`12-14 lakhs in just one year the project installation time biogas plant on land donated
of operation. Plan are afoot to down to just three months to the Vellore municipal
expand beyond 68 streetlights, (from the handover of site). corporation. As cooking
and to apply this model to Bhand wants to take his model gas becomes more and
the entire ward of which Pali to countries like Vietnam and more expensive, the biogas
Hill is a part, with a plant Oman, He is also working produced will be compressed
of correspondingly bigger on additives that will ensure in cylinders and sold back to
capacity. adequate gas production, even hotels at a subsidised rate, thus

“It is very satisfying how if the supply of waste falls creating a circular economy.
much we have achieved, and short. Since this will generate funds,
the amount of support this He adds that with this hotels and the corporation
plant has garnered,” says model, he wants to help define won’t have to pay for the
Poplai. Even now, if the plant standards for the waste sector; operations and maintenance of
falls short of waste on a given there are none at present. the plant either. Well, there is
day, the staff (which has only He also hopes to see healthy one getting ready at Delhi too! CIJ

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