Mumbai: After a prolonged pause, BMC once again decided to break the whip on the bulk waste generator that did not separate and process their garbage.
Data shows that currently not 50% of Mumbai’s bulk generators follow BMC rules.
The Civic’s body has also provided relaxation due to labor issues related to ongoing pandemics.
“But now, we once again decided to start acting against the absence and the process already exists,” said Sunil Sardar, deputy solid waste head engineer.
“Environmental level officials have been instructed to once again follow up mass generators and ensure that they begin to follow the rules about separation and processing waste.” Companies that produce more than 100 kg of waste every day or have an area of ​​over 20,000 square meters called bulk generator.
While taking action, the BMC presents a notification to mass generators under Section 368 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Law, which requires housing communities to collect and dispose of garbage.
Officials said that things were taken to court when deciding on fines in such cases, which ranged from Rs 5,000 to 50,000 rs.
Rajkumar Sharma, President of the Locality Management Committee and Chembur-Based Advanced Field Network (Almanac), said that asking for mass generators to separate waste was impractical.
“Not all may have space to treat their waste and can outsource work to a body.
However, who knows whether the agency treats waste properly after taking it from the establishment,” Sharma said.
‘Covid slowed driving against plastic’manyy from the city that had made efforts to separate and make their waste compost at the level of individual or society saying that there are several items that cannot be composted, especially plastic from the package of chips and namkees, and thermocols, and therefore must prohibited.
A civilian official said that there were dried waste vehicles to collect this as a mechanism for prohibition not yet implemented.
“BMC must slow its action against single plastic use in the city because Covid since March 2020,” said an official.
“Many Covid care centers, for example, have food served in it; too, BMC distributes food packages to a lot of homeless people.
In addition, many citizenship staff are involved in jobs related to Covid, and therefore it is not possible to continue the crackdown in commercial companies Found using a single plastic use.
“Only 1,574 waste the mass generator process of 3,153 Mumbai.
BMC previously said that wet waste from housing communities and other mass generators that produce more than 100 kg waste a day should not be collected after October 2, 2017 and Civic trucks only take dry waste.
The reality is that BMC is still struggling to get many mass generators to treat garbage in the source.
(With input from George Mendonca)