Islamabad - Capital Development Authority has allocated 50 acres of land in Sector I-17 to build a plant for generating energy from 800 tonnes heaps of garbage collected from Islamabad Capital Territory on regular basis.
Talking to this agency, CDA Director Sanitation Sradar Khan Zimri said the authority was planning to establish four transfer stations where collection vehicles would transfer garbage onto larger trucks to processing stations.
The stations were proposed to be built in Zone-II, III, IV and V, from where the garbage would be transported to Sector I-17 plant to convert it into energy, he added.
He said the civic body staffers instead of going door to door to pick up the garbage, the people should dispose of it at its designated places.
The proposed plant is expected to burn around 1,500 tonnes of garbage to produce 10 megawatts of electricity. The selected company would set up the plant on a build-operate-transfer basis. It will hand over the facility to the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation after 25 years.
At the moment, there is no proper landfill in the federal capital and the CDA disposes of around 600 tonnes of garbage into a temporary landfill in an undeveloped area of sector I-12.
Moreover, the CDA has failed to put in place a proper garbage collection system in the rural areas of the capital. As a result, most of these residents dump their garbage into storm drains and streams.