From October 20, MCG will stop taking unsegregated waste in Gurugram

GURUGRAM: MCG won't accept unsegregated waste from households and other waste generators from October 20 and will start imposing penalties on those found giving mixed waste, officials said on Wednesday.
The decision has been taken after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) imposed a penalty of Rs 100 crore on MCG for flouting the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 and collecting unsegregated waste, they said.
From next week, residents, RWAs and bulk waste generators (BWGs) - those who produce 50kg or more waste every day, such as hotels, restaurants and industries - will have to segregate the waste into dry, wet and hazardous waste. BWGs must process their waste within their premises and give only the residual waste to the authorised waste collection agency, MCG said.
"We will start penalising vehicles carrying mixed waste and will inform Ecogreen drivers to collect only segregated waste and keep it in segregated form till it reaches the dumping point. Residents will also be made aware to give only segregated waste. We will start issuing challans from October 20. MCG has to pay a penalty of Rs 100 crore for flouting the SWM rules, 2016. It is very difficult to segregate the waste at secondary collection points or material recovery facilities. If we get waste in a segregated form, the entire procedure will be simplified," said Naresh Kumar, MCG joint commissioner (Swachh Bharat Mission).
According to the NGT order, which was issued on September 27, "no fresh waste should be allowed to be dumped at the present site (Bandhwari landfill)" and fresh waste must be processed in accordance with the SWM Rules, 2016 in a decentralised manner and at other alternative sites.
MCG had last year too announced that it would start collection of only segregated waste from November 11, 2021. However, it was started as a campaign and no challan has so far has been issued to residents for giving mixed waste. TOI had reported that a survey done by Ecogreen in June earlier this year showed that only 36% households covered by the concessionaire for door-to-door waste collection segregate their garbage.
Residents, meanwhile, said even if they give segregated garbage, it is mixed in the process of transporting it to the dumping site. "I have been segregating my waste since last year, but some of my give mixed waste. So, even if we give segregated waste, it ultimately gets mixed," said VK Singh, a resident of Suncity.
"Last year too in November, MCG had announced that waste segregation was mandatory, but no impact was seen on the ground," said Vaishali Rana Chandra, a city-based environmentalist.