Waste To Energy Projects

Shri Praveen Prakash

Mission Director - Swatchh Bharat Mission

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Dear Shri Prakash-ji :

Just read with interest this news report ( Waste to Energy Projects ) in MINT ( 23 March ) , where you say :

"  Cleaning the city and processing waste material makes the environment healthy....."

News report adds :

*  Once all this capacity ( 312 MW ) comes on stream, India's waste-to-energy capacity will go up by six fold from the current 53 MW

*  CERC fixed a tariff of Rs 7.9 / Kw for electricity sold by waste-to-energy plants ( vs. Rs 2.5/Kw for thermal power plants

*  The Central Govt is giving Rs 15,000 Cr to municipal corporations for this purpose

*  These allocations, together with private partnerships, could result in an investment of about Rs 65,000 crore in these projects

But :

Government wants that 10 GW of the energy ( out of a total target of 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022 ) , should come from " bio power " (  32 times of 312 Mw under way !  )

Can this be achieved  ?

Sure , if Central Government implements my following suggestion :

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Monday, 21 March 2016

Discourage Plastics : Encourage Greed

Two days back, the Centre notified stringent plastic waste management rules to regulate use of the hazardous material and handle the waste generated by it

These include :

*  Banning of plastic bags of less than 50 micron thickness

*  Manufacturing / use of non-recyclable multi-layered plastic to be phased out in 2 years

*  Manufacturers of products using plastic wrapping materials will have to pay prescribed

    fees to States. Collected funds will be disbursed among civic bodies and gram panchayats

    for taking measures to dispose off plastic waste

No doubt , such measures were long overdue and must be welcomed , although I have serious doubts whether our corrupt bureaucracy will strictly enforce these or use these as one more means to extort bribes from manufacturers / retailers / users  !

SOME  BACKGROUND  STATISTICS :

*  India generates 15,000 tons of plastic waste everyday

*  6,000 tons remain uncollected and get disposed off in hazardous manner

*  There are approx 8,000 plastic recycling units ( half of them , unregistered )

MISSING  ELEMENT  :

Abolish Corporate Income Tax for all plastic recycling units for next 10 years  !

Let GREED take over GOVERNING  !

WHAT  CAN  WE  EXPECT  ?

*  Within a year , another 10,000 plastic recycling units will come up

*  100 % of plastic produced will get recycled

*   These units will mobilize lakhs of  " Plastic Rag Pickers " to collect every small scrap of

    plastic from every nook and corner of every street in every city,  leading to Swatchh

    Bharat  and self employment !

*   Recycled plastic will get used to build strong / long-lasting road surfaces

*   Some recycled plastic will be used as raw material for mass-producing of  3D printed

     houses , solving problem of 50 million " Affordable Housing " (ask WINSUN of Shanghai )

     ( This is the kind of innovations expected from our National Science Laboratories )

WHERE  ELSE  CAN  WE  TRY  THIS  ?

*   Abolish Corporate Income Tax ( for 10 years ) for all plants / units , producing Methane

     Gas using organic waste from household / hotels / restaurants

      

*   All municipalities and gram panchayats to allow such privately-owned Organic Waste

     Processing / Gas Producing units to collect such waste from all the streets , free of cost

*   Municipalities will save hundreds of crores of rupees in Garbage Collection

*   State Electricity Boards will set up Gas based Power Plants , next to these units and buy

     the gas for power generation

If this suggestion is implemented , we would have SWATCHH  BHARAT in 2 years

And , we would have harnessed human GREED ( viz: avoid income tax ) of our Start Ups to solve the problem of pollution

No more fires in Deonar dumping ground  !

I hope Shri Prakash Javadekar-ji is listening

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hemenparekh.in / blogs

22  March  2016

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