After failing to effectively implement garbage treatment facilities at its dumping grounds, the civic administration is looking to foreign companies to set up waste-to-energy plants in the city.

The BMC will invite proposals from companies across the world to set up plants in order to treat the 6,500 metric tonnes of waste generated. "Foreign companies have shown interest in undertaking such a project. We will invite an expression of interest from them and study the proposal," said Prakash Patil, deputy municipal commissioner, solid waste management, adding that "companies from South Korea, Germany and France are world-renowned in such technologies and have shown interest."