the flood depending on the season, ranging from being completely flooded in November to only storage water in the lower step. This sensitive geography has the potential to connect visitors and nature and offers an ever-changing scenery.
Chennai is welcoming the future and its citizens are an intrinsic part of the progress
Landfill Research Hub & Treasure Island
Fig. Landfill Mining
Chennai’s dump yards are radically transformed into clean energy, pure hydrogen, and plasma rock, thanks to the pioneering Enhanced Landfill Mining Research Project 2050 under the guidance of Sembcorp and Veolia Environnement S.A., funded by the kfw development bank from Germany, which have a long tradition of successful projects in Chennai. This pioneering project, one-of-its-kind in Asia, was undertaken in 2020 by Chennai corporation as a response to arguably the most pressing issues in flood management, i.e. the uncontrolled garbage disposal in Pallikaranai marshland. The project boasts of a cutting-edge research center which specialises in the fields of Material and Environmental science where the scientists painstakingly develop the material-flow technology. This technology firstly separates the plastic, glass and metal from the dump yard, then melts this separated waste instead of burning them to produce electricity, pure hydrogen and plasma rock. The plasma rock is then used to create cement, a building material that will be used in the slum-upgrading project. This simultaneous projects that take place on
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