To make Mumbai roads cleaner, BMC to implement door-to-door waste pick-up, remove all community garbage bins by 2030

As per the BMC’s plan, these bins will be removed in a phased manner starting this year. By 2026, nearly 25 per cent of the total bins will be removed, while 50 per cent of the bins will be removed by 2027.

Community waste bins are large containers where citizens dump their daily waste. These containers are often placed in public spaces like crossings, where they lack a covering, frequently resulting in garbage spilling onto the road.

“Usually, these bins are used by people living in slum areas where door-to-door collection doesn’t happen, so people dump their waste in the open bins. Therefore, as part of our new objective, we intend to carry out door-to-door pick up of waste across all the wards in Mumbai, including in slums and gated societies. This, in turn, will reduce the dependency on the bins, and we can systematically eliminate them,” said a senior civic official.

“Earlier, ward-wise tenders were issued to remove these bins. Therefore, the success rate was very low. This is the first time a centralised plan has been taken up, and we are confident that we will be able to eliminate these bins from the streets of Mumbai by 2030, in a bid to make Mumbai’s streets look cleaner,” the official added.

Usually, the garbage dumped in these bins is later picked up by trucks and dumpers, and transported to the city’s dump site and waste processing facilities. But as the community garbage bins are removed, pick-up vans will directly collect waste items from households and transport them to the waste processing sites for treatment.

The BMC had proposed the removal of these waste bins in 2018 as well. Around 1,200 such bins were removed within two years of that announcement.