City-based Anchor3E Corporation has been developing a “Green World System” for the last two years, based on a technology that is widely used in countries such as Japan, to burn the domestic waste.
S. Venkatachalam, who is into consulting and designing at the company, told The Hindu that the firm developed the system which functions almost like an incinerator but without fuel. The “Controlled Oxygen Rotating Technology” has been modified, he says. Each unit can burn half tonne to five tonnes of waste and at least 60 per cent should be dry waste. The by-product is ash and it can be used on farmlands.
The company has been talking to local bodies in the State and even in other States and has installed a few systems on a trial basis. “We have invested Rs. 50 lakh in this project. We are now studying if we can generate power from this system and if the capacity can be reduced so that it can be used as a mobile unit,” he says.
Local bodies can install these units in each neighbourhood and save the cost incurred for the transport of waste. Land used for dumping waste can be reclaimed. “If we develop the mobile unit, it can be installed even in apartments and independent houses,” he says.
