FYI Please ---------------------- Dear All this is just a reminder of what we had decided to do in national convention, and the follow-up decided. Akalpita Bio-gas plant Biogas plant is an innovative idea which took birth in our national institute BARC, to stop menace from monkeys and stray dogs. It was decided to use the canteen waste to generate bio gas. It is the idea on which Dr. S. P. Kale worked and is working relentlessly.
This utilizes the wet waste from the households as also from farms, canteens, restaurants, hotels, food and beverage industries. It is very important from the point of view of national development to install the biogas plants in the municipal and corporation areas in the city. This is because (1) One can locate the plant very near to the place where the waste is generated. This avoids transportation of waste as also saves the transportation cost which is may be 10 times more and recurring than the cost of a plant. (2) Segregation of waste can generate funds for the municipality. (3) Very small area (may be about 1/10 th or less) is required compared to that required for dumping ground. As an idea of order of magnitude, about 500sq m is required for 1 ton biogas plant as against acres of land for dumping ground. (4) Since the waste gets digested immediately, it does not decay resulting in decrease in health hazards like diseases caused by pathogens. (5) Reduces the menace of stray dogs, cats and rodents living on the dumping ground, getting infected and causing a nuisance as also hazard to the society. We at BM think that these are good enough reasons for the municipalities and corporations to install biogas plants. The gas available can be put to fruitful use. The manure can enrich the farm lands, again saving us from the poisons of fertilisers or pesticides, the added bonuses. As a first initiative, we want to take up the matter to Mumbai Municipal authorities and make Mumbai free of garbage and clean and green as the municipality envisages. We would like to invite all the likeminded people from different NGO's who are interested in sustainable development of human kind and taking the issue related to Waste Management and Bio-Gas generation to the concerned authority in BMC. The meeting is on July 19th 2009, 5 PM at C -3/4, Suman Nagar, Chembur, Mumbai -71 If you are interested in having further talk about this issue you can contact Dr. Akalpita Paranjpe on +91 93222 64815 [email protected]
