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The Kerala Solid Waste Management Project (KSWMP) has started producing Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF) done the bio-mining process astatine Njeliyanparamba.
The archetypal consignment of RDF was dispatched to the Dalmia Cement mill successful Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, wherever it volition beryllium utilised arsenic a root of energy. The consignment was jointly flagged disconnected by Kozhikode Corporation Mayor O. Sadasivan and District Collector Snehil Kumar Singh recently. The inaugural aims to wide the bequest discarded accumulated implicit decades and reclaim the onshore for productive use.
According to KSWMP officials, erstwhile the discarded is cleared and the onshore is afloat reclaimed, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) volition acceptable up a compressed biogas (CBG) works astatine the site. Seven acres of onshore volition beryllium handed implicit for the purpose.
Biomining is presently nether mode connected 12.6 acres of the full 17.5-acre country astatine Njeliyanparamba. It is estimated that 2.30 lakh cubic metres of bequest discarded person accumulated astatine the site.
Through the biomining process, discarded is segregated into assorted components specified arsenic soil, plastic, metal, and wood, which are past processed scientifically successful compliance with regulations for reuse. The operations, which began successful March 2026, are present successful afloat plaything and functioning astir the clock.
The full task outgo is ₹31.20 crore. Provided upwind conditions and different adverse factors bash not origin delays, the biomining enactment is expected to beryllium completed wrong 10 months. Chennai-based Sigma Global Environ Solutions Private Limited is executing the project.
