MBMC stops lifting unsegregated garbage from housing societies
Faced with a daunting task of managing a huge quantum of garbage generated in the city every day, the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has finally decided to stop collecting from housing societies that fail to segregate dry and wet garbage at source.
Residential societies who don’t segregate waste have been left with mounds of garbage outside their buildings for the past couple of days.
Judicial directions in context to the implementation of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, had prompted the civic administration to send out notices to around 7,000 housing societies in the region to separate wet garbage from dry into two distinct bins, this tagged with a warning of stringent action, including refusal to collect non-segregated garbage and snapping of water lines of repeat offenders.
As per the information sourced out from the sanitation department, only 40 percent of the societies have so adhered to the norms.
Stung by the defiance, officials have directed sanitation personnel to lift only the segregated garbage.
Explaining his helplessness, deputy civic chief Dr. Sambhaji Panpatte said, “We have no option but to enforce the law to curtail the twin-city’s burgeoning garbage problem. A certain amount will be charged towards at-source segregation from defaulting societies for a stipulated timeframe, so that all fall-in line.”
With a minimal amount of garbage being segregated at source, hazardous plastic comprises more than 12 percent out of an average of 500 tonnes of garbage generated by the twin-city on a daily basis. As per rules it is binding upon individuals, housing societies and commercial establishments to segregate waste at source.