Sustainability issues in Solid Waste Management

Consortium offers Corporation र 41.85 per tonne of waste

Chennai: A consortium of private firms that bid for the solid waste processing facility at Kodungaiyur dump yard has offered to pay the Chennai Corporation र41.85 per tonne of waste. The Corporation Council approved the bid on Tuesday.

Bangalore-based firms Terra-Firm Biotechnologies Limited, Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company and Tanglin Developments had formed a consortium to bid for the waste processing facility. The only other bid received for the project was from a consortium formed by India Cements that withdrew its financial bid during the evaluation process.

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The tenderprocess for the Kodungaiyur facility was delayed because the Council had earlier rejected a bid that was tabled before it in a meeting held in July. The bid was made by Ramky Enviro Engineers and Ramky Infrastructure Limited, which asked for र 69.30 to process a tonne of waste.

Mayor M. Subramanian said that the tender was cancelled because the civic body had got a much better deal for the proposed waste processing plant at Perungudi, where Hydroair Tectonics (PCD) Private Limited offered a payment   र 15 per tonne of waste.

The bid would now be sent to the State government for its sanction. If approved, the consortium would have to develop the facility on a design, build, operate, maintain and transfer basis. It would have to run the project for 20 years and annually increase the royalty by 5% of the previous year’s rate.

The consortium has proposed to compost waste, produce refuse-derived fuel and generate electricity. Debris would be put in sanitary landfills. The Corporation would have to provide 1,800 tonnes of garbage every day.