MARGAO
“The Black Hole technology appears to be quite interesting, but how it will help in getting rid of Sonsodo waste remains to be seen,” remarked Margao Municipal Chairperson Babita Angle Prabhudesai after a municipal delegation returned home from Bangalore after getting first
hand experience of the technology there.
The MMC Chairperson had led a delegation to Bangalore where the Black Hole technology is being used to dispose mixed waste generated in the city. “The Black hole technology is quite interesting. We have seen the operation of the technology and how waste is disposed of. As far as the Margao municipality is concerned, we have invited the company to inspect the Sonsodo site to take a look at the existing mound of mixed waste,” she said.
Babita pointed out that the if the promoters of the Black Hole Technology give the green signal that the technology can be applied at Sonsodo as well, the Margao municipality can take the next step of inviting the company to set up the plant on an experimental basis. “There are reports with the municipality about the waste content at Sonsodo. Let the company go through these reports and also conduct a site inspection of the site before taking a decision,” she added.
Sources in the know said that while the Black Hole technology is basically meant to tackle the plastic and mixed waste, questions are being raised whether the technology will help rid Sonsodo of the waste, more so the mixed waste comprising plastic, mud, and other waste.
When The Goan asked why the Managing Director of Goa Solid Waste Management Corporation Sanjit Rodrigues and Goa State Pollution Control Board officials were not part of the delegation to Bangalore, the MMC Chairperson said that Sanjit will soon visit Bangalore and get first hand experience of the technology. As far as the GSPCB officials are concerned, she said that senior pollution board officials have already visited Bangalore to evaluate the efficacy of the Black Hole technology vis-Ã -vis Goan conditions.
