Waste management has been poorly implemented in Andheri and Malad areas where hardly 20 per cent bulk waste generators have started processing waste.
It is almost three years, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been strongly pushing waste segregation and processing at source. Less than 50 per cent establishment in the city has been managing their waste within their premises.
Waste management has been poorly implemented in Andheri and Malad areas where hardly 20 per cent bulk waste generators have started processing waste.
Recently, the civic administration had asked assistant commissioners of 24 wards to submit their plans on how they will reduce garbage generation and manage at source. At present, the city generates around 7500 metric tonnes of garbage everyday.
As per the data available with the Solid Waste Management (SWM) of BMC, the civic body has initiated action against 884 establishments in the city for failing to start waste management. In January, 39 bulk generators, maximum in Borivali area, have been dragged to court.
In Mumbai, there are total 3374 bulk generators identified and 1572 establishments are processing waste at their premises. Last year, the BMC had gone aggressive against housing societies and commercial establishment in the city for not processing waste within their premises. The total fine collected so far is over Rs 33.5 lakh. "Many of the societies are having space crunch while several have financial issues," said an official from SWM department of BMC. He added that the civic body is working on common waste composting centre.
Around two years ago, the BMC had made compulsory for bulk waste generators to dispose of garbage in their premises only. As per the BMC, residential building or commercial units that have space of over 20,000 sq metre or generating over 100 kg waste every day, have to carry out composting at their own place. The civic body has initiated the step after all its landfill reached to saturation.
The civic body asked them to set up vermi-composting facility within one more month or that have to face action under the MRTP Act. Societies that failed to set up vermi-composting facilities in their premises, the BMC initiated prosecution against them. The overall waste generations remain around 7,200 metric tonnes per day.
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