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Refused-Derived fuel plant in Meghalaya to turn all waste into energy

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Guwahati: South Korea has helped Meghalaya in setting up a refuse-derived fuel plant.

The project will help in turning waste into energy, which will completely redefine people’s perception of waste and garbage disposal. This is the first of its kind project in the entire country set up by a Korean company in India.

At the district headquarters of West Garo Hills, Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma along with the Ambassador of South Korea to India, Chang Jae-Bok, on Tuesday inaugurated the pilot project.

The plant, situated at the landfill site at Rongkhon Songital, is a collaboration of the Government of Meghalaya, Tura Municipal Board, and Chamhana GW of South Korea.

The current project in Tura has been envisioned as a working model demonstration (Proof of Concept), to manage the daily incoming municipal garbage of Tura town and its adjoining areas.

“When I visited this site (landfill), I really wanted to do something and I didn’t know what and how, but I knew that we needed to reverse this entire process of dumping the garbage here to make this place green again and more importantly, finding a way, a technology that could enable us to ensure that the future waste that we generate could be put to a lot of things’, Chief Minister Conrad Sangma said.

The fuel briquettes can then be used as a replacement for coal and charcoal.

Terming the project as a win-win for all, the Ambassador of South Korea to India, Chang Jae-Bok, who is on his maiden visit to Meghalaya, said that the pilot project is the start of many meaningful and mutually beneficial collaborations that Korea and India could have in the field of technology that has the potential to greatly enhance the quality of people’s lives.

“Our (Republic of Korea) Embassy in New Delhi will make an effort to further develop this kind of mutually beneficial project and cooperation in the future," he said.

BNE ADMIN