MCD to implement new garbage disposal plan

The MCD said garbage will be collected from its source and dropped at the landfill site now. Under the new proposal, biodegradable and non-biodegradable garbage will be segregated at the source and will be carried in trucks with separate units for the two types of waste.

At the landfill site, the waste that can be recycled will be segregated further, and the rest will be compressed and deposited in the Engineered Landfill Site.

The project will be outsourced to private agencies. 8220;The company that will be awarded the tender will be responsible for lifting the garbage at its source, segregating it and then deposing it at the land fill site,8221; Gupta said. He said the company will be paid only after the garbage is compressed and is deposited in the Engineered Landfill Site located on the same premises.

To ensure that maximum garbage is recycled, the MCD plans to give incentives so that the percentage of waste going into the Engineered Landfill Site is less than the maximum allowed percentage.

The MCD has about a hundred acres of land in the Narela-Bawana area, which it says will be able to hold Delhi8217;s waste for the next twenty years.