BBMP in search of new quarries for landfills

• The National Green Tribunal (NGT) may have recently imposed environmetal compensation of ₹10 lakh on BBMP for not bio-mining quarry-landfills, but the civic body is neither intent on bio-mining of quarries nor ending the practice of landfills.
• NGT has asked us to biomine the quarries, which involves removing the waste, separating wet waste and RDF, extracting leachete and methane. But many experts have opined that biomining is not feasible. We have decided not to pay the fine imposed by NGT, but appeal against the order on the grounds that biomining is not feasible.
• There is no project yet to harness methane gas from quarries. Presently, BBMP is letting the gas into the atmosphere, but it is planning to use to produce electricity. 

SOURCE : THE HINDU