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If discarded segregation is inactive not portion of the regular daily successful your home, past get acceptable to autumn successful line. New rules are coming into effect connected April 1, 2026. Under the revised Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules 2026, notified precocious by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, four-stream segregation of coagulated discarded astatine root has been made mandatory. This means your household discarded is required to beryllium segregated into bedewed waste, adust waste, sanitary discarded and peculiar attraction waste; the aboriginal includes overgarment cans, bulbs, mercury thermometers and medicines.
The revised rules, which supersedes Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, integrate the principles of circular system and extended shaper responsibility, with a circumstantial absorption connected discarded segregation and management.
Those moving successful this abstraction accidental immoderate large concerns successful Chennai see gaps successful availability of postulation vehicles and processing facilities. There is besides a request to enforce rules strictly for each stakeholders.
All bulk discarded generators are expected to process bedewed discarded in situ oregon get an Extended Bulk Waste Generator Responsibility (EBWGR) certificate stating that on-site processing is not feasible. Bulk discarded generator includes entities with a level country of 20,000 quadrate metres oregon more, oregon h2o depletion of 40,000 litres per time oregon more, oregon coagulated discarded procreation of 100 kg per time oregon more.
Material betterment facilities (MRFs) are again successful the spotlight. Under the revised rules, section bodies are liable for the collection, segregation and proscription of coagulated discarded successful coordination with MRFs which whitethorn besides enactment arsenic deposition points for e-waste, peculiar attraction waste, sanitary discarded and different discarded streams for further processing. MRFs person been formally recognised arsenic facilities for sorting of coagulated waste, says the note.
Local bodies person been encouraged to make c credits.
Local bodies
The caller rules emphasies instauration of a Centralised Online Portal to way each stages of coagulated discarded management, including discarded generation, collection, transportation, processing and disposal, arsenic good arsenic biomining and bioremediation of bequest discarded dump sites. Registration and authorisation of discarded processing facilities with section bodies and State Pollution Control Boards oregon Pollution Control Committees shall beryllium carried retired online done the portal developed by the CPCB. The rules mandate audits of each discarded processing facilities.
Voices
‘Have stringent rules successful place’
While I invited four-way segregation of waste, I wonderment however galore of the existent discarded postulation vehicles seen connected Chennai roads person abstraction to accommodate aggregate bins. Local bodies indispensable acceptable speech dedicated days erstwhile antithetic kinds of discarded are collected and this indispensable beryllium communicated to residents truthful that segregation becomes a habit. When we worked successful assorted neighbourhoods successful the past, we had pressed abstracted vehicles into work for adust and bedewed waste. Stringent rules should beryllium enforced to marque contractors/waste absorption companies autumn successful line. I wished the revised rules had insisted that large lodging projects make infrastructure for composting of discarded earlier handing implicit the task to residents.
Mangalam Balasubramanian, adept connected coagulated discarded absorption and founding president of Eco Chakra Abhiyan
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‘We volition tweak our discarded absorption rules’
Aashiana Apartments successful Alwarpet is among the archetypal gated communities successful Chennai to commencement composting acknowledgment to the tiny infrastructure created by the builder and the galore programmes that we residents ran to get radical to springiness lone segregated waste. Even contiguous our biodegredable discarded is composted successful situ. But we volition person to tweak our discarded absorption process arsenic per the caller SWM rules. Sanitary discarded is presently included successful adust waste. The caller rules coming into unit are lone going to marque it easier for america to enforce our segregation rules. Sadly non-compliance wittingly oregon different happens astatine times and we person to support reinforcing the rules.
Anita Hegde, Green Club volunteer, Aashiana Apartments
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‘Bulk discarded generators indispensable acceptable an example’
Maintaining 1 much bin is going to beryllium cumbersome for immoderate residents, but it is conscionable astir getting utilized to the practice. We volition beryllium gathering to sermon however to bring astir consciousness astir the caller rules and however this caller strategy tin amended recycling ratio and reducing landfill waste.
Currently, we travel the 2 bins, 1 container method to cod waste. They were bought successful bulk and fixed to residents for amended compliance and uniformity. As successful the past, we volition person to amended each stakeholders astir the rules. It is astir accordant conversations and enforcement. Bulk discarded generators similar america person much reasons to travel rules and support the metropolis clean.
Our connected tract composting has been connected a hiatus and I anticipation the caller rules volition nudge america to find caller solutions to the challenges we faced successful the past.
Sumitha Iyer, discarded segregation team, The Central Park South and committee lead, FOMRRA Swacch Bharat
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‘We volition person to behaviour consciousness sessions’
The caller SWM Rules 2026 lays accent connected each stakeholder successful keeping a metropolis cleanable by giving lone segregated waste. It’s imaginable to travel the four-bin strategy and we volition commencement conducting consciousness sessions. The artillery operated vehicles tin accommodate 8 bins, truthful it’s conscionable astir having immoderate systems successful place. Sanitary discarded is simply a situation and if residents are liable successful the mode they dispose them past we volition guarantee it’s taken to the incinerator.
Official, SWM, GCC
