Indore: India's Cleanest City Has No Garbage Bins

NEW DELHI: A city which has successfully dealt with garbage issues is Indore. The most important point for Indore was source segregation of garbage, so it got the top position as the cleanest city in the country.

In Indore, a control-cum-command centre was set up to track the movement of the garbage collection vehicles from the neighbourhood to the processing centre. Once the garbage was segregated, it was transported to the Garbage Transfer Station (GTS) for sorting. It is here that it is segregated into six types. The garbage is also compressed with machines and put in huge plastic capsules. The final destination of these capsules is the trenching ground where the Ahmedabad-based NEPRA Resource Ltd has set up one of India's biggest solid waste management plant.

Strict monitoring by the municipal authorities coupled with tough action, which includes hefty penalties and suspension for dereliction of duty, has ensured that there are no gaps.

The wet waste dumped in a landfill produces methane when it rots. In hot weather, methane catches fire spontaneously and the blaze spreads as it feeds on combustible materials like textiles and plastics. IANS

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