Finally, a solution to Capital’s malba mounds
The mounds of debris along roads, which block traffic and eat up parking space, may finally be put to good use with government agencies being asked to use recycled construction and demolition (C&D) waste for their projects. The country’s first C&D waste recycling plant, with a capacity of 2,000 TPD (tonnes per day), was set up in North-West Delhi’s Burari in 2009. Since then it has processed 20 lakh tonnes of debris or malba . But, due to lack of planning and coordination the recycled material — ready-mix concrete, kerb stones, cement bricks — have just been piling up here. Delhi got its second such plant in East Delhi’s Shastri Park last year, which is yet to work at its full capacity of 500 TPD. Two more C&D waste recycling plants are being planned by the Public Works Department.