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Publish Date : 17-Jan-2017

Contracts for the municipal solid waste processing in the districts of Colombo and Gampaha and production of electricity under private-public partnerships (PPPs) with the Waste Management Authority of the Western Province will be awarded to a pair of firms with foreign partnership and technology.

The Ministry of Megapolis and Western Development officials have announced that Fairway Holdings (Pvt) Ltd., one of the investors that will establish a facility at Thumbowila in Karadiyana, and KCHT Lanka Jang (Pvt) Ltd. that will operate from a Muthurajawela location, will be responsible for carrying out the waste-to-energy projects via the foreign incineration technology.

Handling and disposal of municipal solid waste is a huge challenge and any sustainable solution to address the issue has not been achieved for many years, promoting the Government officials to opt for waste-to-energy projects, according to them.

The solid waste generated by the municipalities is now disposed in the unhygienic landfills, creating environmental hazards and protests by the locals.

The sites, both having 10-acre area, are common disposal locations for local authorities in the Western Province, which have been selected by the Waste Management Authority, Western Province (WMA-WP) for managing municipal solid waste that the Colombo and Gampaha districts create.

It is anticipated that Fairway Holdings at Thumbowila will be handling at least 500 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste per day, while Karadiyana and KCHT Lanka Jang (Pvt) Ltd. at Muthurajawela are likely to manage at least 400 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste per day.

With stakes in both consortia, the WMA-WP will have to provide most of the municipal solid waste, according to the officials.

KCHT Lanka Jang (Pvt) Ltd., which has been selected from four bidders, will receive the contract to run from the Muthurajawela site and the facilitys daily processing capacity will be 630MT of municipal solid waste.

While the Waste Management Authority of the Western Province will deliver 400MT/ day of municipal solid waste, the consortium itself will be responsible for managing the remaining 230 MT/day of municipal solid waste. It will deploy South Korean waste incineration technology.

The tender for operating the Karadiyana site of Thumbowila was awarded to Fairway Holdings amid three bidders.
Fairway Holdings will deploy German and Danish technology to operate the Thumbowila site, which will receive 500 MT/day of municipal solid waste from the WMA-WP.

The decision on the price at which the two companies will sell the output of their waste-to-energy projects is still to be taken.

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