slugStatus of composting in India with emphasis on Delhi
Journal Title: International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology (IJRASET) - Year 2013, Vol 1, Issue 4
Abstract
The present waste handling techniques in the States of India were examined. Results indicated that around 7% of waste is being composted in India at present. The cities having composting facilities have grown from 22 in the year 2008 to 115 cities at present. Also, out of the total 369 compost plant in India, 177 are in operation and 192 are at planned stage. Delhi is the most densely populated and urbanized city of India. The annual growth rate in population during the last decade (1991-2001) was 3.85%, almost double the national average. Delhi is the largest producer of municipal solid waste in India, producing nearly 8000 metric tons of solid waste every day, which is projected to rise to 17,000-25,000 tonnes/day by the year 2021. Out of the generated waste approximately 6,500 to 7000 MT per day is collected. Approximately 650 MT per day of waste is composted and the remaining is sent to a landfill. There are four Compost plants in Delhi i.e. Okhla, Bawana, Tikri and Bhalswa. Visits to the compost plants showed that the compost plants in Delhi were operating at less than their design capacity. The quality of compost being produced at Okhla compost plant and Bawana compost plant was good and adhered to the specifications stipulated by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The compost being produced at the Bhalswa and Tikri compost plants were not of the desired quality.
Authors and Affiliations
Kartikey Handa, Dr. Anamika Paul, Preeti Jain
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP17717
- DOI -
- Views 357
- Downloads 13
Design and Implementation of Three Way Transportation
introducing a new design a vehicle by comparing the data and specifications of present vehicle in category and to calculate the performance characteristics and possibilities. For that the vehicle is conceptually designe...
Implementation of Fuzzy Logic Based On Photovoltaic Maximum Power Point Tracking For PMDC Motor
This paper presents implementation of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) method employed in photovoltaic system to extract maximum solar energy and utilise it for driving pmdc motor. In this we use fuzzy logic techniqu...
An Efficient Video Transmission by Reducing the Packet Loss Using HEVC
to protect real-time video transmission over unreliable networks, packet-level forward error correction (fec) codes are widely studied. When the number of redundancy packets are determined, with fec coding block size th...
Japanese Encephalitis Virus: A Summary
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a member of Flavivirus genus. It comes under the category of viral brain infection which is spread through mosquito bites. JE virus is transmitted to humans through infected Culex sp...
Review on Experimental Analysis of Heat Transfer in Shell and Twisted Tube Heat Exchanger
In recent years, the high cost of energy and material has resulted in an increased effort aimed at producing more efficient heat exchange equipment. The heat transfer rate can be improved by introducing a disturbance in...