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PET BOTTLE CRUSHING MACHINE INAUGURATION
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The Paro Dzongkhag Administration in collaboration with the hotel and restaurant owners of Paro commissioned a pet bottle crushing machine in Tshongdue town coinciding with the 29th Birthday of His Majesty the 5th King on 21/2/2009.
The plant was inaugurated by Dzongdag in presence of Gups and business community of Paro. Fifty two hotel and restaurant owners contributed Nu.8,83,500.00 with the highest contributing one lakh and lowest five hundred Ngultrums.
The plastic bottle crushing plant was set up at a cost of Nu.6,54,458.00
The bottle crushing plant was set up with the objective of making Paro free of the plastic bottle wastes which is increasing at an alarming rate.
Paro Dzongkhag is experiencing the increase in waste generation since the development of the Tshongdue town in 2003. There is increase especially in the service sector like hotels and restaurants which are the primary generators of plastic bottle wastes.
The Tshongdue town at present does not have a landfill site for waste disposal and the present waste disposal site is overloaded.
The Municipality in order to reduce the accumulation of wastes had constructed a conventional incinerator to burn the combustible wastes. But due to mixture of wastes and high moisture in the wastes, reduction of waste accumulation by burning is not very effective.
In order to reduce the wastes further, the Municipality embarked on the strategy to divert some of the wastes from the waste disposal site.
The set up of this plastic bottle crushing plant will thus divert the plastic bottle wastes from the waste disposal site and decrease the waste load at the waste disposal site. The plastic bottle shredder machine can shred hundred and fifty kilograms of plastic bottles in an hour.
The Municipality also plans to introduce waste segregation at the household level in the town within the year.
The bottle crushing plant will be initially operated by the Paro Municipal Authority for a period of one year and study the viability of outsourcing the operation and maintenance service to private enterprises.
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