India, Jan. 25 -- The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to reuse the approximately 1,200 tonnes per day (TPD) of ash generated at the Capital's four Waste to Energy (WtE) plants, noting that if dumped, such a large quantity of ash will exhaust the new engineered sanitary landfill (ESL) at Tehkhand in only six-and-a-half years.

Granting a six-month conditional consent to operate (CTO) for the ESL, DPCC said, "The committee has underlined there is substantial (1200 TPD) of ash (fly ash and bottom ash) generated from the existing four operational WtE plants at Okhla, Bawana, Ghazipur and Tehkhand in Delhi. The disposal of this quantity of ash from the WtE plants in the low-lying area...