PESHAWAR: Almost 60 percent construction work on first ever Solid Waste Recycling Plant of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and second in Pakistan after Lahore in district Kohat has been completed, said a statement of Regional Information Office Kohat on Monday.
The said Plant is meant to dispose-off solid waste and indeed recycle it to make products for reuse in the market. The production capacity of the Plant is 500 tons per day on need basis. The Plant would be operational in a period of 24 months at the proposed site of production.
Domestic solid waste and garbage is not only the local or national but global issue particularly of the developed nations. This issue in our country is more serious as compare to the developed world. Solid waste and garbage in streets and roads is creating environmental pollution which is hazardous and injurious to health.
Like other parts of the country, solid waste is also the big problem of Kohat district and it is being intensified day by day due to influx in the city and rapidly growing population. Launching of the project of Solid Waste Recycling Plant by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in Kohat is need of the hour and welcomed by the general public and social circles of Kohat.
The Solid Waste Recycling Plant is being constructed at a distance of 6 KM from the city in two phases at a cost of Rs.180 Million in Muhammadzai Union Council of PK-38 Kohat-II and 80 Kanals land had already been acquired for it. In 1st phase, construction/infrastructure work has been carried out at a cost of Rs.80 Million and so far 60% work has been done and it would be completed by June 2016. In 2nd phase, required machinery would be installed after June 2016 at a cost of Rs.100 Million and probably the Plant would be made operational in 2017.
