East corporation gets 6 more trommel machines for Delhi's Ghazipur landfill

NEW DELHI: East Delhi Municipal Corporation on Friday added six trommel machines at the Ghazipur landfill to augment its capacity to segregate garbage and process legacy waste. Now, 12 machines have been installed to deal with 2,400 tonnes of waste every day.
“Through consistent efforts, the height of the landfill has been brought down by 40 feet in the past one year. I don’t believe in spending Rs 40 lakh on advertisement daily. I believe in honest hard work. We shall not stop until there is a complete change,” said east Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir while inaugurating the machines.
Ghazipur is not an issue of only east Delhi but of the entire city, he said.“To get rid of it, all agencies need to work together. I had written to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in February inviting him to visit the landfill site together and have a meeting of all authorities concerned; but till date there has been no response,” the MP alleged. “He rather indulges in petty politics by sending his MLAs to disrupt the work. This is the attitude and seriousness of our CM towards one of the biggest problems of our city,” Gambhir added. Despite TOI reaching out to it, Delhi government didn’t comment.
The civic agency also plans to install a modern plant at the site for more segregation. “Talks are on with manufacturers for the installation. Going by the performance of trommel machines, it will be difficult to achieve 100% results,” said an official. “We need a technology that will work efficiently with legacy waste and process at least 1,500 tonne waste per day. Manufacturers are being invited to demonstrate their machines or operate them here on pilot basis,” he added.
TOI found on Friday that fresh waste was being dumped at the back of the landfill, a site originally meant for extending the capacity of the existing waste-to-energy plant. “Due to space restriction, we have installed new machines near the green patch,” said the official.