Greater Noida: The Greater Noida Authority has hired a private agency to clear about 4 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste from Lakhnawali village, which is the current garbage dumping site in the city in the absence of a permanent waste disposal site.
The agency will begin work in the next three months and is expected to remediate the entire waste and reclaim the land by 2023, officials have said.
While the contract awarded is of Rs 23 crore, the remediated waste will be recycled to generate manure, fill low-lying areas and used for road resurfacing work.
Moreover, for the disposal of the remaining waste, a sanitary landfill is being prepared in Astauli, which will be ready by the end of this year, according to officials.
Greater Noida currently generates about 250 tonnes of waste daily.
Salil Yadav, senior manager at GNIDA, said, “We have hired a consortium of two companies, AG Enviro Infra Projects Pvt Ltd and Antony Lara Enviro Solutions Pvt Ltd, to clear about 4 lakh metric tonnes of legacy waste from Lakhnawali village.
The agency will remediate and reclaim the land back to us in two years’ time from the date of signing the contract.” While the contract is likely to be signed this week, Gaurav Kapoor, corporate development officer at AG Enviro Infra Projects, said that earthmovers have already been deployed at the site even as the authority maintains that the remediation processing equipment is expected to be set up in the next three months.
Bhagwan Singh, GNIDA’s supervisor in-charge at the Lakhnawali site, told TOI that about 200 to 215 tonnes of waste reach the site per day, which are then covered by mud to prevent foul smell from emanating.
For the remediation to start, the garbage collected in Lakhnawali will be segregated first.
It is estimated that 60% of the waste will be turned into manure.
GNIDA will use the compost made from garbage in parks and green belts while the leftover manure will be sold to generate revenue.
The plastic and dry waste will be used for re-carpeting roads and filling potholes.
The remaining waste will be dumped at the under-construction landfill site in Astauli.
Officials said that the waste going to the landfill site will be about 15%.
“We have planned a hybrid strategy for processing of waste through centralised and decentralised centres.
The remaining waste will be disposed of at the sanitary landfill in Astauli, which will be ready by the end of this year,” said Yadav.