For years, garbage including kitchen wastes generated from households in Avadi has been dumped at a landfill site.

To put a permanent end to this, the municipality – among the largest local bodies in the city suburbs – began an attempt to convert kitchen waste into electricity at its biomethane plant in Sekkadu, a farming village.

From about 90,000 households, about 140 tonnes of garbage is generated in the municipality every day and 10 tonnes of it is kitchen waste, officials said. At present, a series of trials at the plant have been undertaken by the local body to ensure the maximum output of the facility. Separate bins have been provided to houses, hotels and Amma canteens in the neighbourhood to collect vegetable wastes, the main raw material used in the plant, officials elaborated............Read more

Source: The Hindu