Rajkot: After installing the Biomethanation factory, Junagadh Municipal Corporation (JUMC) is ready to get carbon credits by processing city solid waste (MSW).
The official claimed that the Civic body would be the first of the country to get carbon credits.
In addition to producing fuel that can be used in vehicles, biomethanation factories, which process green waste, will also help JUMC produce around RS 20 lakh every year as carbon credits.
The Civic body has received approval from the Universal Carbon Registry (UCR), which issued carbon credits.
As per rough estimates, JUMC will produce around 9,000 credits every year.
By selling carbon loans on the open market, JUMC can produce around RS 20 Lakh.
Carbon credits are permissions that can be transferred which allows the stand, both organizations or countries, to produce a specific greenhouse gas volume (GHG).
Biomethood factory, with the capacity to process 15 tons of green waste per day, installed at a cost of Rs 5 Crore.
The body that has provided a factory will handle its maintenance and operation over the first five years.
Vinod Moradiya, MOS, Urban Housing and Urban Development, will inaugurate plants on Saturday.
The Civic Daily body collects around 130 tons of waste, especially from hotels, restaurants, commercial and household companies.
Of this amount, around 50 tons are green waste which is mainly kitchen waste, vegetable waste and other wet waste.
By using 15 tons of green waste, biomethood plants will produce 500 kg of gas that can be used as fuel.
Municipal commissioner Junagadh R M Tanna said that this project was designed on the concept of waste to wealth.
“This is a unique project because we will get carbon credits from it.
If this waste is not processed, it will lead to accelerated global warming.
We have tested this factory since the last month and now we will formalize it,” Tanna said.
JUMC plans to start city bus services in the future and the gas produced from this factory will be used in the buses as fuel.
Until then, JUMC will buy gas from the agency that operates the factory at a price of Rs 2 per kg less than market prices.