Upkeep firm told to start three-bin waste collection

Gurgaon: The MCG has issued a notice to solid waste management agency Ecogreen Energy Pvt Ltd, asking it to start segregation of hazardous waste at the household level. In the notice, sent on Monday, the agency has been asked to attach a separate container/bag on the its vehicles for collection of hazardous waste.
MCG officials said Ecogreen would ensure that the waste was segregated before it reached the waste treatment plant in Bandhwari.
Biotic Waste Ltd was recently appointed to manage hazardous waste produced in the city. “Hazardous waste will be handed over to waste transfer centres, operated by the agency, for scientific treatment and recycling,” said an MCG official.
The corporation has also appointed nodal officers to educate residents about benefits of segregating hazardous waste. Awareness campaigns will be started as soon as Ecogreen makes provisions for collection of hazardous waste, the official said.
Earlier, TOI had reported that MCG was planning three-way segregation. Residents will have to keep three garbage bins — a green bin for wet (biodegradable) waste, a blue bin for dry (non-biodegradable) waste and a red bin for hazardous waste.
Officials said that the mixing of hazardous waste with other waste made it difficult for the agency concerned to treat it. Asked about number of households, carrying out two-way segregation, officials said that residents were segregating waste at 60 locations, where community composting was taking place.
There has been increased focus on source segregation since NGT rapped the corporation and other local bodies for haphazard disposal of waste in Bandhwari.
MCG believes it will reduce volume of waste dumped in Bandhwari by 30% with help of source segregation and decentralised composting.
Sources, however, said that getting residents to implement segregation had become a mammoth task. “We had been planning this for a while but did not have required mechanisms in place, which delayed the process,” said an official.