Waste segregation yet to pick up pace in walled areas: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation

It's been ten days since AMC implimented waste segregation at source, but data shows that the civic body is receiving less segregated waste from the walled areas of the city as compared to other.

The Refuse Transfer Stations that are assigned with the task of compressing the waste collected from the walled city mostly received domestic waste. Of the eight RTS, Khadia and Rakhial collect waste from the walled areas. "Both RTS receive more domestic waste. Even with dry waste collected separately, it is much more difficult to get material from it. The dry waste in both the transfer stations takes up a lot of time for further segregation, and most of it are residuals," said Harshad Solanki, director of solid waste management, AMC.

However, the waste collection is going smoothly in rest of the city. Now, around 25 to 30 per cent dry waste is collected by the AMC. On December 3, 2018, the civic body had collected 124 tonnes of dry waste which has now increased to 163 tonnes, as of Tuesday.

"Earlier, maximum 9 tonnes of dry waste would be collected daily, but after the event of source segregation, the eight RTS are receiving 163 tonnes of dry waste daily," said Mukesh Gadhvi, deputy municipal commissioner of the AMC.