Bhayandar: Citizens who don’t segregate waste have been left with mounds of stinking garbage outside their premises in the twin-city for the past couple of days. Saddled with a daunting task of disposing off an overload of more than 500 metric tonnes of garbage generated per day, the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has finally decided to act tough. Despite judicial directions, segregation at source continues to remains a non-starter. Warnings including refusal to collect non-segregated garbage and disconnection of water connections for repeat offenders towards violation of garbage collection norms, has never been effectively imposed by the civic administration. Stung by the defiance, MBMC’s sanitation department has decided to cease the trash collection facility from housing societies and other commercial entities that fail to segregate dry and wet garbage at source.
The action triggered after the private agency operating the waste management plant in Uttan refused to accept nonsegregated garbage, thus affecting the day-to-day collection mechanism. Consequently several pockets in the twin-city have been left with mounds of garbage. “To tackle the burgeoning garbage woes, it is the need of the hour for any city to achieve 100% segregation. The contractual agency had been asked to lift and ferry only segregated waste. Expecting support and co-operation from citizens, the mechanism will be strictly enforced from May 16,” said civic chief Balaji Khatgaonkar. As per provisions of the municipal solid waste management rules, it is binding upon residents to segregate waste at source. Around 79 compactor trucks criss-cross through the twincity hauling its trash to the lone treatment plant in Uttan which has recently started processing wet waste in a scientific way.
