Indore (Madhya Pradesh): Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport will become country’s first zero-waste airport with Union Civil Aviation minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu inaugurating a recycle plant on Sunday.
MP Shankar Lalwani informed that the city is the cleanest in the country and it has fulfilled the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convert garbage to gold. Similarly, a target was set to make the city’s airport a zero-waste airport.
The basic idea of making the airport zero waste is by following the four R, that are Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Restore. Earlier, the airport had to pay a fee to Indore Municipal Corporation for the disposal of waste. Now, with the construction of this plant, the airport will also gain from it in the coming days.
Airport arrangement is in place to dispose wet and dry wastes from the airline shops, and the garden waste. Wet wastes would turn into compost manure; while dry waste is being segregated. In this aspect of bulk waste management rule, a material recovery facility was constructed on an area measuring 3000 square feet.
IndiGo Airlines has helped to give shape to this whole project through the CSR fund. Along with this, Airport Authority of India, organisation Aas and IMC have also played a major role in bringing up the facility.
