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MoRTH issues directive to states Three civic bodies plan to
to construct highways with waste implement waste to energy
plastic system in Kolkata
The Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways (MoRTH) The satellite township of Salt Lake will soon
has directed all the states to use plastic waste for have a waste to energy system that will solve
the construction of national highways and to ask reputed its long pending waste disposal problems. Three
institutes like IITs to study the performance of the roads urban local bodies - the Bidhannagar Municipal
constructed with waste plastic. Corporation,Nabadiganta Industrial Township
Authority and theNew Town Kolkata Development
MORTH has also issued a direction to all states to use Authority has planned to joined hands to come up
bituminous mixes with the waste plastic in at least a 10 km
stretch as a pilot project. “It has been decided that in each
state/UT, bituminous mixes with the waste plastic may be
used in at least a stretch 10 km as pilot project,” said the
order. It further said that in order to study the performance
of these roads, Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) with a comprehensive solid waste management
reputed engineering colleges like IITs/NITs/Government that will convert waste to energy. The three civic
Engineering colleges may also be engaged so that the bodies have agreed to joined hands by signing a
efficiency of the system can be confirmed before making it memorandum of understanding and a proposal
mandatory in the contracts. would be chalked out for JICA assistance for solid
waste management.
Earlier, bituminous mixes with waste plastic was the default
mode for periodic renewal, with the hot mixes within a 50 At present, all the three urban local bodies dispose
km periphery of urban areas having a population of over five their daily generated solid waste at Mollar Bhery
lakh. “All the agencies are requested to take measures for which falls off the wetland area. There is no
implementation of the same and send the details identified segregation of wastes and the site has already got
stretches to be constructed with waste plastic to the saturated. The civic authorities are planning for
Chief Engineer,” said the ministry. It further said that the JICA assistance to develop an end to end solution
feedback on the performance of the stretches constructed not only for the landfill site but also for an efficient
with waste plastic may also be sent to the Chief Engineer intelligent transportation and collection process so
with a 6-month interval. State agencies have been asked that waste could be converted to energy.
to send an action taken report to the ministry.
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