100.29 acres of land recovered in Perungudi and Kodungaiyur.

Tamil Nadu: The Chennai Corporation has announced that 100.29 acres of land have been reclaimed at the Kodungaiyur landfill in Perungudi, Chennai, through the biomining method used for waste segregation.

A press release issued by the Corporation in this regard stated: Waste collected daily from the Chennai Corporation areas had been dumped in the Perungudi and Kodungaiyur areas for many years. This caused environmental damage to the area. Considering this, a project is being implemented to segregate the waste and reclaim the land through biomining.

Under this project, waste removal and land reclamation through biomining have been carried out at the Perungudi landfill at a cost of Rs. 350.65 crore. In Kodungaiyur, this work has been done at a cost of Rs. 641 crore.

So far, 26.35 lakh metric tons of solid waste have been removed from Perungudi, and 94.29 acres of land have been reclaimed. In Kodungaiyur, 22.06 lakh metric tons of solid waste have been removed, and 6 acres of land have been reclaimed. Fencing, planting, and maintenance work are also underway on the reclaimed land.

Based on this, it has been reported that a total of 48.41 lakh metric tons of waste have been removed from both landfills through biomining, and 100.29 acres of land have been reclaimed.