Waste disposal: Bulk generators told to submit plan in 7 days

Gurgaon: The MCG has directed bulk waste generators (BWGs) in the city to submit their action plan for waste management in seven days. There are 614 BWGs in the city, of which 200 have signed an agreement with Ecogreen for their waste management. However, the remaining ones have no waste management plan so far,an official said.
According to the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, the BWGs should have a plant to compost their wet waste, and dry waste should be recycled. The directions were given in a workshop organised by the civic body on Monday.
“The units generating more than 50 kg of garbage everyday are called bulk waste generators. They have to manage their waste on their own. They were directed in the meeting to ensure that each one of them have a composting plant on their premises. We will impose a fine of Rs 25,000 on them if they fail to comply with the norms and their sewerage and water connections will be cut,” said Vijaypal Yadav, deputy municipal commissioner of MCG.
The MCG officials said that the BWGs, such as condominiums and societies, will have to rope in their RWAs to ensure that the residents keep three waste bins to segregate waste and the waste collection is also segregated. MCG will help in training the operations and management of the wet waste composting plant.
MCG commissioner Mukesh Kumar Ahuja recently directed the sanitation department officials to conduct an audit and ensure that all BWGs follow the norms. Officials said that notices were recently issued to all the BWGs to comply with the norms, however, during the workshop some said that they generate less than 50 kg of waste everyday. Such BWGs were also told to submit their reports on actual waste generated by them.