Aafrin Kidwai 
Residential apartments near Vaishali Metro Station, Ghaziabad
The Ghaziabad municipal corporation has planned to incentivize residents and the corporation’s staff in order to better manage the source-segregation of solid waste generated daily in the city.
Officials told the Hindustan Times that starting December, they will be rolling out an app-based solid waste collection system that will keep track of dry and wet waste handed over to the corporation’s door-to-door collection vehicles, and the points collected by households can be redeemed in the way of rebate in house-tax.
At present, the city generates about 850-1,000 metric tonnes of solid waste, and a majority of it is collected from residential areas with the help of about 200 door-to-door collection vehicles, which do so every day in the morning in 100 residential wards.
Picture Credit: Nikhil B/Wikimedia Commons, Residential area, Vaishali, Delhi, CC BY-SA 4.0
