Lahore Waste Management Company’s (LWMC) ambitious project to convert the Mehmood Booti deposition system to a solar park and Byskov progresses quickly, with the authorities expecting to end the first phase of July and the second phase at the end of the year.

The initiative, supported by a five billion-peppe investment, aims to convert methane emissions from the landfill to useful energy and at the same time generate carbon credits.

For decades, the winding garbage iskers from Mehmood Booti, ​​located north of Lahore Ring Road, were serious environmental and health dangers, especially for LWMC workers and nearby residents due to persistent smells and metan emissions.

Now the 42 goals are a big place-when you stand almost 80 meters high-rehabilitated with soil paving and reintroduced as a sustainable energy and recreational hub.

The landfill, which served as Lahore’s primary dumping site until 2016, before waste disposal switched to Lakhodair, is now an important part of the Punjab government’s “Clean Punjab” initiative. Monitored by LWMC and Ravi Urban Development Authority (RUDA), the project includes a large -scale methane gas extraction system where installed plastic pipelines will catch and treat gas for sale to nearby industries.

In addition, an 11 hectare solar park on top of the landfill generates about 5 megawatt electricity, while the remaining 31 hectares will be transformed into a city forest with wooden plantations and hiking trails. Ruda CEO Imran Amin estimated that carbon credits sales could bring in two to three billion rupees annually with additional income from biogas.