The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday sought to convert Kochi’s mounting organic waste problem into a civic advantage by engaging the public sector Bharath Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) to construct an industrial-level compressed biogas plant that would turn tonnes of biodegradable refuse from households, hotels, marriage auditoriums and markets into valuable energy and nutrient-rich fertilizer sludge.
The plant would come up on 10 acres of the municipal Corporation land at Brahmapuram. The Kerala government would hand over the public property to the BPCL.
The Cabinet pegged the proposed plant’s daily processing capacity at 150 tonnes. The BPCL would underwrite the entire cost of the ₹150-crore project.
