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The Coimbatore Corporation informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that unfastened dumping of unsegregated discarded astatine the Vellalore dumpyard has been wholly stopped since December 22, 2025.
The Corporation placed this submission astatine a caller hearing. The tribunal is proceeding the lawsuit suo motu based connected a study by The Hindu astir a occurrence astatine Vellalore connected April 7, 2024.
According to the Corporation’s presumption report, astir 50 tonnes of mixed discarded collected successful the metropolis is present diverted to processing facilities, including micro composting centres (MCCs), worldly betterment facilities (MRFs) and vermi-composting units. Of the 36 MCCs, 11 are functioning arsenic composting centres, 18 person been converted into adust discarded oregon e-waste centres, and the remaining, which were earlier closed oregon non-functional, are present operating arsenic MRFs.
On bio-mining of bequest waste, the Corporation informed the tribunal that a 4th trommel commenced operations connected December 8, 2025. As a result, 34,774.5 tonnes of bequest discarded were processed successful December 2025, compared with 28,013.96 tonnes successful September. However, the monthly people of 46,800 tonnes is yet to beryllium achieved, and the tribunal directed the Corporation to instrumentality steps to adhere to the task timeline.
The Corporation added that nether Phase II of the bio-mining project, 7,94,139 tonnes of bequest discarded has been identified for processing wrong 24 months. The regular processing capacity, primitively fixed astatine 1,200 tonnes, was revised to 1,800 tonnes, oregon 46,800 tonnes a month, to conscionable the tribunal’s timeline of October 2026. As of December 31, 2025, 2,20,559.33 tonnes, accounting for 27.8% of the full bequest waste, has been processed, and astir 18 of the 84.62 acres covered by bequest discarded has been reclaimed.
Taking enactment of the submissions, the NGT directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), on with the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), to behaviour an autarkic method inspection covering bio-mining methodology, machinery deployment, processing efficiency, recovered fractions and their extremity usage oregon disposal.
The tribunal besides asked the CPCB to taxable a elaborate method presumption study wrong six weeks.
