The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued notices to 3,084 housing societies/commercial establishments to start segregating and composting wet waste by October 2. Then the civic body will not pick up the wet waste from their complex. A civic official said they are writing to the housing societies to inform them about the October 2 deadline. The official also said that BMC plans to write to more housing societies about the same. “If these 3,000-odd housing societies itself start composing wet waste, then close to 1,345 metric tonnes of waste will be reduced from going to the dumping grounds.

Source: Hindustan Times August 05, 2017 19:52 UTC