Ahmedabad: A new ‘material recovery facility'(MRF) built in public private partnership between NEPRA resource management private ltd and Ahmdabad Municipal Corporation was opened today by city Mayor.

The AMC has allocated 4,000 square meter land for this facility over which NEPRA has built MRF with investment of Rs 12 crore.

Waste sorting task is performed in this plant through automatic machinery. Daily capacity of this plant is 70 mt sorting of dry waste.

NEPRA has total three MRFs with combined capacity of 100 mt dry waste segregation per day.

The company has 40 vehicles to collect waste and developed micro entrepreneur model for waste management.

The company has used collection cloud computing system to ensure transparency in schedule pick-up.

Under the waste management procedure at its MRF, NEPRA tries to recycle as much waste as possible. Rest of the waste is sent for co-processing so that it can be used as source of energy(refused derived fuel) in cement industry.

NEPRA has so far recycled 12,500 mt dry waste and thereby prevented 38,999 mt carbon dioxide release.

DeshGujarat