Now, MC aims to clear out legacy waste by July

Even as the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) had assured the Punjab and Haryana high court of clearing out the Dadumajra dump completely by May 31 this year, 1 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of legacy waste still remains at the landfill, which it now aims to remove by July.

- Mandeep Kaur Narula

CHANDIGARH:

After missing repeated deadlines, MC had completed the bioremediation of two mountains of legacy waste at Dadumajra landfill in February this year, and had started the work to process the remaining freshly dumped waste, holding a massive 1.25 LMT of waste.

Amid Chandigarh's turbulent waste management journey, two legacy waste mountains of 5 LMT and 8 LMT came up in Dadumajra over the past few decades due to inadequate garbage processing facilities.

The first dump, with 5 LMT waste, was processed by December 2022. However, when the bio-remediation of the second mountain was being done, another mountain of waste emerged at the landfill as a result of the unabated dumping of unsegregated and unprocessed daily waste.