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Preparation to generate power from garbage

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KATHMANDU, Feb 15: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has been making preparation to generate power from garbage.

Chief at the Department of the Environment Management of KMC, Rabinman Shrestha, said that the KMC is going to generate 14 KW power within next three months.

Shrestha said that the electricity is to be produced from the garbage collected at the Teku Waste Transfer Station and 300 tonnes of bio-organic garbage is need every day for the same.

A total of 450 tonnes of garbage is produced in Kathmandu valley. Of them, 63 per cent is bio-organic fertilizer.



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The power to be generated at the joint investment of European Union and KMC would be utilized at the KMC Office.

According to the KMC, it is going to produce 96 kg of gas, 300 kg of bio-organic fertilizer and 13,500 litre of purified water from the garbage collected at Teku. RSS

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