South Korean company setting up a waste-to-fuel plant in Meghalaya, India
The pilot project is a collaboration between the state government, the Municipal Board of Tura, and Chamhana GW of South Korea.
A South Korean company is setting up a pilot project for a refuse-derived fuel plant in Tura, the headquarters of West Garo Hills district in Meghalaya.
On Tuesday, South Korean Ambassador Chang Jae-Bok, along with Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma inaugurated a waste-to energy pilot project at Rongkhon Songital landfill site near Tura. The project is a collaboration between the state government, the Municipal Board of Tura, and Chamhana GW of South Korea.
The project in Tura is intended to demonstrate a successful way of managing the daily influx of municipal garbage produced by the town of Tura and its outlying areas.
Inaugurating the project, Sangma stressed on the importance of developing new forms of energy that can harness waste and added that the project would change the way people think about waste and garbage disposal.
The Chief Minister noted that when he first visited the site, he wanted to do something, but didn’t know what and how. He went on to say that we need to reverse this process of dumping garbage here and make this place green again.
Additionally, he indicated that it was important to find a strategy to ensure that the waste we generate in the future can serve as an asset.
The waste to energy pilot project, would convert all waste except recyclables such as metals, glass, wood, e-waste and construction waste into briquettes that could be used as a replacement for coal and charcoal.
The Chief Minister has expressed optimism that if the pilot project is successful, similar waste conversion plants will be installed in other parts of the state.
In his maiden visit to Meghalaya, the Ambassador of South Korea to India termed his visit as a step toward the startup of mutually beneficial collaborations between India and Korea in technology that “can greatly enhance the quality of people’s lives.”
He concluded his statement by saying, “Our embassy in New Delhi will endeavor to maintain and build upon this kind of cooperative work.”
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