Dry, wet, sanitary, hazardous: PCMC residents must now use 4-coloured bins to avoid fines

Moreover, red bins for sanitary waste such as solid or liquid waste contaminated with bodily fluids, including used sanitary pads, diapers, medical disposables and tampons; and black bins for hazardous household waste like leftover products that are toxic, ignitable, corrosive, or reactive, such as paints, cleaners, motor oil, batteries, pesticides, and electronics.

Speaking to the Indian Express, Pradeep Thengal, Deputy Commissioner, Health Department, PCMC, said, “The four-way segregation will ease scientific processing of waste. And would help reduce pressure on landfills, promote recycling, control garbage accumulation, arrest environmental pollution, and reduce foul odour. Currently, residents are being made aware through social media outreach, banners, door-to-door, programmes, and pamphlets conducted with the support of non-governmental organisations.”

“Waste segregation at source is important and it reduces the complexity later. As the collected waste would be later sent to waste-to-energy plants, and bio-composting. Bio-medical and electronic waste must be segregated as waste is rising and mixing it with regular household waste poses risk to sanitation workers,” he explained.

“We urge Pimpri-Chinchwad residents to cooperate by segregating their domestic waste and hand it over properly to municipal collection vehicles. And there will be a penal action in case of non-compliance,” Thengal added.
The initiative is implemented under the guidance of Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal commissioner Shravan Hardikar, additional commissioner Vijaykumar Khorate; supervised by deputy commissioner Dr Pradeep Thengal and assistant commissioner Amit Pandit; with an aim to roll out across all city wards in Pimpri-Chinchwad.