Project planned to produce electricity and fertiliser from solid waste

Faisalabad: Ministry of Environment has planned a multi-million project for conversion of solid wastes into fertiliser and energy generation for Faisalabad. The project would be undertaken as joint venture with private sector and the equity of public sector would, however, be 60 percent.

Under this project, a solid waste disposal station will be installed to utilise municipal solid waste for electricity generation and production of fertiliser with capacity of utilising 1000 tons solid waste per day.

Faisalabad is currently producing more than 1000 tons of solid waste daily. A spokesman of the ministry said that environment friendly and clean development mechanism would be used for this project.

The components of this technology would be weigh bridge, trammel screen, shredder for organic material, sorting station consisting of 6 work places, conveyor system to the aqua separator, aqua separator, homogenisation tank, bioreactor, de-sulphurisation tank, sludge holding tank, liquid fertiliser tank, high rate composting machine, co-generation of heat and power unit. The spokesman said that efforts have already been made to start work on this project without any unnecessary delay.