Greater Noida: NTPC has found a major buyer for the city’s plastic waste. NTPC will procure 20 tonnes of plastic waste per day. Will prepare fuel from it, which will be used to generate electricity. This will also generate income for the Greater Noida Authority. The agreement was signed between Greater Noida Authority and NTPC on Thursday.
NTPC will buy 20 tonnes of plastic per day
It is worth noting that the remediation plant of Greater Noida is built in Lucknow. Where the garbage is segregated. It consists of 50 percent household waste, which becomes compost. 25 percent of the waste is processed and converted into the soil, which is used for filling roads or potholes. The remaining 25 percent of the garbage is plastic waste. The authority was looking for a big buyer to recycle it, which has now been completed by NTPC. On the initiative of Greater Noida Authority CEO Narendra Bhushan, NTPC’s Research and Development Center located near Surajpur has agreed to buy about 20 tonnes of plastic waste per day.
Will convert to fuel
NTPC will bring the separated plastic from the remediation plant at Lucknow’s Greater Noida to its center and process it and convert it into fuel. Which will be used for electricity generation. On Thursday, in charge of Public Health Department of Greater Noida Authority, DGM Salil Yadav, Managers Vaibhav Nagar and Jitendra Yadav, Nikita Nanda and her team from Ernst and Young and Shaswatam, Sujoy Kumar, Rajiv Satyakam, Ajay Kumar from NTPC in the presence of many officials. Signed on.
400 kW electricity per day
NTPC will prepare fuel from this plastic waste, which will be used in engines engaged in power generation. With this electricity, NTPC’s Research and Development Center at Greater Noida will be illuminated. He said that about 400 kilowatts of electricity would be generated daily from this waste. On this occasion, DGM Salil Yadav said that this initiative to make fuel from plastic waste is very beneficial for the environment. Plastic pollutes both air and water. If cattle are eaten, then their lives also come to an end. Now this problem will be solved. Greater Noida Authority’s ACEO Deepchandra has appealed to the residents of Greater Noida to minimize the use of plastic.
