The Waste Management Council forwarded the waste management policy for approval to the Cabinet today.

Bangalore: It’s back to the basics of garbage management. BBMP wants waste segregated at home, to reduce recyclable waste sent to landfills. But the onus is not yet on the citizen.

Beginning Tuesday, the civic body is piloting a project in 34 wards where it will collect segregated waste, and also train pourakarmikas on how to dispose of it. But there’s still confusion as to which process will begin first.

BMC will invite an expression of interest (EoI) from companies for setting up five waste-to-energy plants in the city.

The initiative is part of the corporation’s attempt to ease pressure off the city’s two landfills at Deonar and Mulund, which have exceeded capacity as the appointed contractors refuse to process the collecting waste. The city generates nearly 6,500 metric tonnes of municipal solid waste and 2,000-2,500 metric tonnes of construction waste (debris and silt) daily.

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has decided to implement compulsory segregation of waste in a phased manner.

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Solid waste management or the absence of it in Dibrugarh town, considered one of the fastest growing industrial towns of Assam, remains a worrying issue.

There is no formal door to door garbage collection system in the town. Neither are wastes segregated at source. Waste disposed off by people in roadside bins or enclosures are collected in trailers by a few tractors and dumped in the open on the bank of River Brahmaputra at Maijan Road.

Coimbatore Corporation is going to replicate a Singapore power project that utilises domestic waste to generate electricity.

The second waste-to-energy plant in Delhi is now scheduled to come up at Narela in North Delhi, the North Delhi Municipal Corporation has announced.

To be built with Chinese technology, the new waste-to-energy plant would come up near the Narela-Bawana landfill site. It is expected to become ready by August-end and start functioning on a trial basis from the first week of September.

Six waste processing units to produce compressed gas

The BBMP, which had earlier identified new landfill sites to dispose of waste, has dumped the project. Instead, it is now focusing on installing new waste-processing plants across the City. The Palike, in October 2012, had identified six new landfill sites for disposal of waste at Sunkadakatte, Challaghatta, Bagalur, Kallabalu, Yalachaguppe and Hindalawadi, following a High Court order.