What America abstained we imbibed! Ridiculous, isn’t it? Here the subject is waste management treatment plant at Chalai which will process 35-tonnes of waste and uses gasification technology to convert it into electricity. The proposed technology is outdated and US has tried and abandoned the same three decades ago. The report regarding this has been published by a US-based environmental organisation, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defence League.<\/p>\n
The report sites that there are adverse effects in using the gasification and incineration. “Gasification of municipal solid waste, household garbage and commercial waste products was used in the United States in the 1970s, but those plants were closed because of operating and financial problems. Today, there are only a handful of pyrolysis units burning municipal solid waste,” the report said.<\/p>\n
The state government has already reached an agreement with a US-based company Loro Group to set up a waste treatment plan at Chalai. The proposed plant uses gasification technology to convert waste into electricity. The US report on the plan explains that “Gasification facilities produce gas – primarily carbon monoxide and hydrogen plus hydrocarbon oils, char and ash. The ash which remains after gasification, 8% to 15% of the original volume, is toxic and presents special problems because of the acidic, or low pH, conditions in landfills. Leaching of toxic metals cadmium, lead, and mercury occurs more rapidly at low pH, resulting in contaminated groundwater.”<\/p>\n
The waste management plant was introduced as an alternative for the Vilappilsala plant and was boosted up as an emulation of waste processing technologies which is being followed in advanced countries. Report says that the few plants in the US experienced technological problems and are no longer operating. Above all, at present US is not operating commercial scale solid waste gasification systems.<\/p>\n
According to report, both the incineration and gasification are extremely hazardous ways of processing waste. So the much talked about waste treatment plan at Chalai is sure to be shelved soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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