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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has projected a 15-point enactment program that includes reviving zero-waste colonies and enforcing four-way segregation arsenic portion of its program to instrumentality the recently notified Solid Waste Management (SWM) rules.
Issued by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), the SWM Rules 2026 volition regenerate the 2016 model and travel into effect from April 2026. The MCD volition revive existing zero-waste colonies and place astatine slightest 2 to 5 caller ones each month.
Zero-waste colonies are equipped with infrastructure for on-site discarded management, including integrated discarded converters, composting machines and SWM plants. “This exemplary represents champion signifier for segregation and processing astatine root with progressive nonmigratory and informal assemblage participation, reducing the load connected landfills,” a elder MCD authoritative said.
Awareness campaigns
The MCD issued a circular connected February 9 outlining implementation directions for areas nether its jurisdiction. The program was finalised aft a gathering chaired by MCD Commissioner Sanjeev Khirwar with zonal Deputy Commissioners and different stakeholders. Public consciousness campaigns volition beryllium conducted earlier the caller measures are implemented.
A cardinal absorption is enforcing four-way segregation of discarded astatine root crossed each wards successful the city’s 12 zones. The caller rules mandate separation into wet, dry, sanitary and peculiar attraction waste. Zonal Deputy Commissioners person been directed to hole ward-wise, zone-specific blueprints and rotation retired aviator projects successful phases.
New MRF sites
Under the rules, section bodies are liable for the collection, segregation and proscription of discarded successful coordination with Micro Recovery Facilities (MRFs). Landfills volition beryllium restricted to non-recyclable, non-energy recoverable and inert waste. The MCD volition place caller MRF sites and upgrade aged oregon abandoned discarded postulation points into betterment facilities wherever discarded pickers tin benignant recyclable materials. The circular besides calls for integration of informal workers into the ceremonial strategy with regular consultations and incentives.
