Chandigarh’s door-to-door collection efforts wasted?

The Chandigarh Environment Standing Committee has taken cognizance of reports that segregated wastes collected door-to-door in Chandigarh is being dumped unsegregated at the landfill.

Indian Express reports that committee chairman, former MP Pawan Kumar Bansal said that the Municipal Corporation had claimed that even as segregated garbage is being collected from all 26 wards. However, reports suggest the waste is thrown together in the dumping ground. “The MC representative informed us that 399 specific vehicles for collecting the segregated garbage are to arrive in Chandigarh. The MC has submitted before NGT to fulfill all the conditions of garbage segregation by December 31 this year,” Mr Bansal has reportedly said. 

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