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Keralam Minister Shaji Urges Public Mindset Shift in Waste Management
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News18•10-10-2026, 14:15
Keralam Minister Shaji Urges Public Mindset Shift in Waste Management
- •Keralam Local Self-Government Minister K M Shaji emphasized that waste management is a crucial fight for the future rather than just an industrial task.
- •The minister inaugurated an advanced Refuse-Derived Fuel plant by Clean Kerala Company Ltd at Muttathara, featuring a 100-tonne daily processing capacity.
- •Households were urged to segregate waste at the source and hand it over to Haritha Karma Sena sanitation workers.
- •Four plants across the state will collectively process over 500 metric tonnes of non-biodegradable waste daily into fuel for cement factories.
- •The Muttathara facility operates with advanced safety and pollution-control systems without causing odour or air and water pollution.
Key Questions Answered
The Muttathara plant has a processing capacity of 100 tonne per day to scientifically shred non-biodegradable waste and compress it into large cubes for cement factories.
Four plants are being established across the state under the Nirmalam initiative, which will collectively process over 500 metric tonne of non-biodegradable waste daily once completed.
The project is implemented jointly by Clean Kerala Company and Udayashree Enterprises under a public-private partnership model following the Tamil Nadu model.
