Pune’s Hadapsar waste management plant to start in March

A new waste management plant set up by the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) in the Hadapsar industrial area is expected to become operational by the first week of March. The new facility will process 100 tonnes of garbage daily.

Currently, the board dumps wet and dry garbage in an open area in the industrial belt which has led to health issues in the surrounding areas.

There are two trenching grounds in the Hadapsar industrial area which have been used as ‘dumping grounds’ by the board for the last few years. At one ground, the board has set up vermicompost plant, while the other was kept open till 2017.

The board started scientific capping after residents and industries lodged complaints. Only garbage generated a year ago remains in the open area which will be capped and processed in the weeks to come, reports The Times of India.

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