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Centre sanctions Rs 120 cr plastic Country’s largest waste-to

park for Jharkhand; promises energy plant to be in Gurugram
CIPET centre

hief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar
Claid the foundation stone of
ertiliser and Chemicals Minsiter India’s biggest waste-to-energy plant
FAnanth Kumar announced setting up at Bandhwari village on the Faridabad-
of a plastic park in Deoghardistrict in Gurugram highway. Claimed to be the
Jharkhand with an investment of Rs 120 largest such plant in the country, it
crore, which will create 36,000 direct is slated to produce nearly 10 MW of
and indirect jobs.The minister also said a power from August 2019. The plant
plastic recycling unit will be established will be built and operated by EcoGreen, a Chinese
with an investment of Rs 3.50 crore in company. The greens claimed a decentralised model of
the district, the second unit in India after Guwahati. segregation and composting was a better way to deal
He also assured Jharkhand government that the central with the city’s thrash. Describing it as a giant move
government is ready to establish a Central Institute towards cleanliness, the CM said more such plants could
of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET) Centre come up in future. Claiming that the government was
in Deogarh, provided the state government allocates serious in its approach towards the programmes that
land or building.Briefing media, Kumar said, "We have benefit the masses, he said cooperation and support
sanctioned a plastic park in Deogarh. It will will be set up in of the people was also important in implementation
150 acres with an investment of Rs 120 crore".The park will of schemes.
have units that will manufacture woven sacks, moulded He was perhaps indicating towards opposition by NGOs
furniture, plastic crates, HDPE plastic combs, water tanks, and residents regarding the plant. “Residents of several
bottles, pipes, small containers, toys, mosquito nets and villages, including Bandhwari, Mangar, Fatehpur, Dera
leno bags among others, he said.
and Baliawas, located in the region have been raising
The park aims to provide direct employment to 6,000 their voice against the location of the plant claiming
people and indirect jobs to 30,000 people, he added. that leachate (liquid waste) from the garbage dumped
Stating that the plastic demand is on the rise, the minister here has already polluted the groundwater and has been
said that the consumption is expected to double from a major cause of sharp increase in cancer cases,” said
the current 10 million tonnes by 2020. On Jharkhand's Jitender Bhadana of Save Aravalli.
demand on setting up of a CIPET Centre in the the state, Anand Mohan, Principal Secretary, Urban Local Bodies,
the minister said, "We are ready to give CIPET if you said the construction work of the leachate treatment
provide 15 acres of land for the same. facility had already started at the plant and it would
With establishment of the centre, Deogarh is going to address the problem of leakage of liquid chemicals
be a plastic hub". At present, there are 40 CIPET centres from the waste into the ground. The project cost of the
across the country and the government aims to set up full-integrated waste management plant is estimated
additional 10, so that the country has sufficient resources at Rs 502 crore. A waste-to-energy plant is a waste
of plastic technicians and engineers to meet the industry management facility that combusts wastes to produce
demand, he added. entral Institute of Plastics Engineering electricity. This type of power plant is sometimes
& Technology (CIPET) was established in 1968 by called a trash-to-energy, municipal waste incineration,
Government of India with the assistance of United Nations energy recovery, or resource recovery plant. Modern
Development Programme (UNDP) at Chennai. The main waste-to-energy plants are very different from the
objective of setting up of the institute was to develop trash incinerators that were commonly used until a few
manpower in different disciplines of Plastics Engineering decades ago. Unlike modern ones, those plants usually
& Technology as no similar institute was in existence in did not remove hazardous or recyclable materials
the country. before burning.

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