Nagpur: Heaps of garbage piling up in the form of landfills on the citys outskirts in Bhandewadi could soon be a thing of the past, if officials of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) are to be believed.The NMCs public health engineering department has started a process to reclaim 30 acres of waste land in Bhandewadi dumping yard through a process (biomining) which will remove 15.3 lakh tonnes of solid waste.Over the next two years, the entire Bhandewadilandfill will be free of legacy waste, superintending engineer Shweta Banerjee told TOI.The NMC has floated a tender to free the 30 acres of land by processing 15.5 lakh tonne waste. The NMC will pay ₹780 per metric tonne for completing the process in 33 months. A total of 60% funds will come from the central government while the rest will be raised by the NMC, Banerjee added.Before 2019, the 90 acres of land in Bhandewadi dumping yard presented a sorry image with mountains of waste seen everywhere. Lakhs of tonnes of waste has been destroyed in fires in the recent past. Things have changed for good between 2019 and 2021. During this period, the NMC treated about 10 lakh tonnes of garbage and successfully reclaimed 54 acres of land at the cost of ₹100 crore, Banerjee said. While the NMC is taking care of legacy waste, which has piled up for years, Netherlands based company — SusBDe — has been hired to convert the solid waste into high quality compost, compressed biomass (CBG) and valuable recyclables. Yet another plant is being set up for recycling construction and debris waste. The NMC will also have the citys first animal carcass incinerator in one of the land portions at Bhandewadi.The work of reclaiming 5 acres of land by treating another 6 lakh metric tonnes dumped at the front side is in progress. So far, here, the NMC has used biomining to reclaim four acres of land and the remaining work will be finished by January next year, said Banerjee.Bio-mining is a process where the already dumped waste is dug up and segregated. The waste is then loosened by harrowing and sprayed with composting bio-cultures. Depending on its type, the waste is sent for recycling, reusing or composting.Banerjee said that Nagpur city generates 1,300 tonnes of garbage every day. Once the Netherlands company starts functioning, we should have no waste piling up anywhere, she added.

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