Aafrin Kidwai 
Video footage of the collapsed landfill shared by the NGO, Chintan
From March 15, the municipal corporations of Gurugram and Faridabad will no longer dump their fresh municipal waste at the Bandhwari landfill. Instead, they will process it at alternative sites in Basai (Gurugram) and Sihi village (Faridabad).
Efforts to process about 27.5 lakh tonnes of legacy waste at the landfill will continue, but without the involvement of Ecogreen Energy, the MCG’s concessionaire for waste management in the city.
The Hindustan Times reports that the decision to halt further dumping of waste at the landfill “has been necessitated by a lack of available space at Bandhwari to handle both fresh and legacy waste simultaneously”. By April 2020, four trommel machines in Gurugram and three in Faridabad are expected to become operational, with a combined capacity of 2,100 tonnes per day.
