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Pune’s waning waste management system

Lack of planning, carelessness on part of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), and non-co-operative citizens are considered as the major reasons for the city’s worsening situation.

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Waste kept in bags on the roads where the garbage bins used to be earlier placed.
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Once considered a model city with respect to the solid waste management, many streets in Pune now have garbage piled up like other cities have. Starting February 16, Iamin Pune will carry a four-part-weekly series on what has gone wrong with the city’s waste management system over the time.

Part I

Pune city, which currently has only one dumping yard is almost full to the brim, and about to lose it soon. Lack of planning, carelessness on part of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), and non-co-operative citizens are considered as the major reasons for the city’s worsening situation.

Since December 31 last year, the villagers of Uruli Devachi, which is 30 kms away from Pune, have been asking PMC trucks to stop dumping waste on the dumping ground situated there. The PMC was forced to search for alternatives. It was after much convincing of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Guardian Minister Girish Bapat that the villagers gave a nine-month period to the PMC to find an alternative.

Suresh Jagtap, Head of Department, Solid Waste Department, PMC talking to iamin said that they have been searching for space for a new dumping ground which will have to be scientifically designed that would cause minimum damage to the environment.

Waste segregation

While the PMC is trying to impose fines on citizens not segregating waste at source, the difference in segregation levels across areas is vast. PMC even removed the bins and urged people to separate waste at their homes.
Around 1,500 to 1,800 metric tonnes of waste is generated in the city every day. As per Jagtap, PMC has one waste processing plant at Hanjar working at full capacity which processes around 1,000 metric tonnes of waste every day. Jagtap added that new processing plants are also proposed and this year they are focusing on solving the garbage issue completely.

Part II of this series will appear on February 21 (Saturday).

For the longer version of the report, click here

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