Private company in Jhapa to produce gas, fertiliser from waste

DAMAK: A private company in Damak Municipality of Jhapa district is all set to produce gas and compost manure from the waste from next month with support from Alternative Energy Promotion Centre and other entities. Next Era Energy Company which has been given responsibility for waste management of the town is working to produce gas and fertiliser at the same time, according to the company's Managing Director Bimal Khatiwada. Development of infrastructure for energy production from waste processing is in the final stage, he said. Gas, compost fertiliser and liquid fertiliser would be prepared from the waste management. For this to materialise, a processing centre has been established inside the Hamsedumse Community Forest in Damak Municipality-3. As planned, decomposable and plastic wastes will be segregated and then the decomposable waste will be kept in a huge tank for 15 days to produce methane gas. The methane gas produced in such a way will be distributed either through a pipeline or by filling in the cylinders after its processing. The remaining composed waste will be used to produce compost manure while the filtered liquid will be used as liquid fertiliser, Khatiwada said. The system would produce 1,084 kilograms of bio-gas on daily basis and as high as 10,000 kilograms of compost manure. The total cost for the infrastructure development is estimated to be as high as Rs 205.8 million, Khatiwada added. By RSS READ ALSO:

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