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MANGALURU: The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC), in a bid to find new technology to process dry and wet waste collected from the 60 wards of the city, has decided to go in for public-private-partnership (PPP) mode, for the same.

MCC commissioner Akshy Sridhar told TOI that the city corporation will award a contract on a design-build-finance-operate-transfer (DBFOT) mode, if a suitable technology was found to process 300-350 tonnes of waste produced in the city. “We have already invited expressions of interest from firms to present technologies for the processing of wet and dry waste, at the MCC’s dump yard in Pachanady,” he said.

“Currently, our staff segregate the waste at Pachanady. While wet waste is processed at the yard, dry waste is handed over to a private agency. Many have come forward with the latest technology to process dry and wet waste. Hence, we have decided to invite expression of interest, so that we will be able to select the best technology available. We have sought detailed proposals from the firms, and after going through it, we will take a decision. Space for the management of wet waste will be provided by the city corporation, on lease to the successful bidder,” the commissioner said.

“If many firms come forward with better technologies, the city corporation may go for a tender option to finalise the proposal. Meanwhile, the door-to-door waste collection will continue through Antony Waste Handling Cell Limited, till their contract ends in February next year,’’ he said.

“We will invite fresh tenders for the door-to-door collection of waste, before the existing contract ends,” he added.

Currently, waste generation in the city is very less compared to the days before the outbreak of Covid-19. While the city was collecting an average of 300-350 tonnes of waste per day earlier, the quantity has reduced due to the lockdown. On Tuesday, the city collected 187 tonnes of waste from 60 wards.

Ahead of the monsoon, compaction, levelling and soil capping of the legacy waste at Pachanady dump yard were taken up, to avoid landslides. MCC urges all residents to segregate the waste at its source, so that more waste is not added to this site, he added.