New Delhi, Jun 15 (PTI) The waste-to-energy (WTE) plant beside the Ghazipur landfill site here became operational on Wednesday, Lieutenant Governor Vinai Saxena said.

"Of the 2600 MTs garbage generated daily in East Delhi, the Plant will consume 1300 MTs per day & would reduce additional burden of fresh waste on the mounds at Ghazipur," he tweeted.

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According to the data gathered from several reports of the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), a total of 21 lakh tonnes of legacy waste is being bio-mined at the three landfill sites per year (since October 2019).

Only 52.5 lakh tonnes of the legacy waste has been processed so far at the three sites, the latest DPCC report said.

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The Ghazipur landfill site has seen the slowest progress. Only 11 lakh tonnes (7.86 per cent) of the legacy waste has been processed by May-end at the dump site in east Delhi.

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