Okhla composting plant first to get UN Carbon Credits
6 March 2013 6:39 AM IST
The Okhla Composting Plant under South DMC has received Carbon Credits and Rs. 25 Lac from the United Nations Frame Work Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), thus becoming the first composting planting in the country to receive the status. Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) Environmental Infrastructure & Services Limited managing director, Mahesh Babu, handed over the cheque to municipal commissioner Manish Gupta on Tuesday.
The Okhla Compost plant, built under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode, with IL&FS is the first plant in the country which has received organic certification and carbon credits. Till date two lakh tonnes of municipal solid waste has been processed through aerobic composting technology in this plant. The specialty of this plant is that it has acquired carbon credits equal to a day's emission of green house gases by vehicles in Delgi. SDMC is trying to install such localised plants which convert 500 tonnes of municipal solid waste into compost.
Meanwhile, IL&FS Environment is preparing a programme to upgrade the plant. Under the new programme the plant will have the facility to produce refuse-derived fuel and treat leachate in an eco-friendly manner in order to reduce the rejects.
The fertilizers produced from this plant is in accordance to the specification of Fertilizers Control Order and working in the direction of increasing organic food production.
The Okhla Compost plant had been revived in Public Private Partnership (PPP) between unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi and IL&FS Environment, wherein an agreement was signed to rehabilitate and upgrade the Okhla compost plant in May 2007.
The Okhla Compost plant, built under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode, with IL&FS is the first plant in the country which has received organic certification and carbon credits. Till date two lakh tonnes of municipal solid waste has been processed through aerobic composting technology in this plant. The specialty of this plant is that it has acquired carbon credits equal to a day's emission of green house gases by vehicles in Delgi. SDMC is trying to install such localised plants which convert 500 tonnes of municipal solid waste into compost.
Meanwhile, IL&FS Environment is preparing a programme to upgrade the plant. Under the new programme the plant will have the facility to produce refuse-derived fuel and treat leachate in an eco-friendly manner in order to reduce the rejects.
The fertilizers produced from this plant is in accordance to the specification of Fertilizers Control Order and working in the direction of increasing organic food production.
The Okhla Compost plant had been revived in Public Private Partnership (PPP) between unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi and IL&FS Environment, wherein an agreement was signed to rehabilitate and upgrade the Okhla compost plant in May 2007.
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