Client: IL&FS Waste Management & Urban Services Ltd. (IWMUSL)

Location: The three plants are disseminated in Jalandhar (Punjab), Kozhikode (Kerala), Mysore (Karnataka)

Project Description And Status:The objective of the project is to avoid methane emission through processing of municipal solid waste in compost plants located in three different existing dump yards in states of Punjab, Kerala and Karnataka. The project involves adopting method for aerobic decomposition of biodegradable component of municipal solid waste. The compost plants would have an aggregated capacity of 600 tonnes of waste per day: 219 Kilotons of waste/year.      

All the three plants were not operational and were shut down completely in the past due to lack of finance and market barrier. IWMUSL has taken up the initiative of development of the projects along with encouraging marketing of the compost produced from the plants and sale of CDM benefits. Hence the project will provide for an environment friendly and economically viable MSW processing through composting. The projects are implemented and sites have started the commercial operation.