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It is good news for people of the City of Joy. They have to eat more vegetables, fish and meat now and would need to used paper bags instead of plastic carry bags. That will lead to producing more power! Yes. Finland has agreed to share the technology of converting garbage into electricity. Using this technology, power can be generated by burning paper along with vegetable skin, fish and animal bones.
If there is an adequate supply of specific garbage is available, then the European company will put up a ‘Wast to Energy’ electricity project on the six-acre ground in Rajarhat. Interestingly, 99 per cent of waste in Finland is used to generate electricity. Officials of state solid waste management department said that Howrah Municipality area will also be connected to take care of any deficiency of waste required. If the pilot project takes off successfully then there would be other areas where similar projects could be initiated.
A team of experts in turning energy from waste had arrived from Helkinki, the southern capital of Southern Finland and had partaken at the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) on February 7 and 8. During the summit itself, state power minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay had conducted an initial round of meeting with the team to discuss the possibilities of setting up a project in Kolkata.
Sources said that later after discussing the outcome of the meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee it was decided that it would go a long way in solving the waste disposal problem of the state.
After getting a go ahead from the CM, another round of meeting had taken place. Chattopadhyay said that Finland was number one in the converting waste to energy and that they had agreed to set up a unit here in Bengal. He added that certain technicalities need to be looked into and another meeting would soon be convened to iron out those issues.
A senior official of the power department said that the total power which Finland generates through these plants at different areas is measured in Gigawatt per hour (GWh) and electricity produced in our country is measured in Megawatt per hour (MWh) or Kilowatt per hour (KWh). One GW is 10 lakh or one million KW. “In a state like ours where there is a predominance of plastic and allied products, will it be possible to get such huge amount of biodegradable waste? It will be a tall order but not completely impossible. A mass awareness needs to be generated,” the official said.
