October 24th 2023.
Mumbai is cracking down on waste management in the city. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been focusing on the collection and processing of both wet and dry waste. BMC reports that daily, 200 metric tonnes of dry waste is produced in the city, and only 46 dry waste collection centres are available. To address this issue, the civic body has planned to set up nine more centres in the next four months.
The BMC has also set a target to achieve 100 percent waste segregation in the near future. To accomplish this, it has implemented a policy that makes it mandatory for all housing societies and commercial establishments larger than 20,000 sq metres or those producing more than 100 kg of wet waste to segregate and compost waste in their premises.
The dry waste centres at the ward level prevent dry waste from being sent to exhausted dumping grounds. A civic official of the solid waste management department stated that a separate vehicle is sent to societies to collect dry waste based on the quantity of generation or the requirements of the locality. Plastic, paper, glass, metals, tetrapack, aluminium foil, etc. are all considered as dry waste and each centre is expected to process around 5 tonnes of it daily.
The BMC is also cracking down on garbage offenders and has announced penalties for bulk generators who do not segregate their waste. This is part of the BMC's effort to ensure a cleaner and greener Mumbai.
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