Garbage Garbage everywhere: Delhi to be heap of garbage by 2020?

New Delhi, Apr 30 (UNI) Garbage, garbage littered everywhere! That could well be the state of the national Capital in the year 2020 given the rate at which garbage is increasing every year with the present methods of waste management woefully inadequate to deal with the situation.

In fact, according to estimates of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), even the present level of 6000-7000 metric tonnes of garbage generated everyday is proving "too much to handle" for the MCD.

If this is the situation at present, it could be worse by 2020 when the total quantity of garbage could increase to 17000-20000 metric tonnes per day.

The present solid waste management system of the MCD, which comprises collection, transportation and disposal of solid waste, has a total capacity of disposal of 5500-6000 Metric tonnes of garbage per day. The waste from the households, as well as garbage from various roads and side lanes are collected by 49000 MCD safai karamcharis in Delhi and then disposed of in about 2500 municipal receptacles called dhalaos in different parts of the city from where they are transported by 700 trucks to the three landfill sites, in Bhalaswa in Jahangirpuri area, Okhla and Ghazipur.

According to a recent study, the three landfill sites are presently able to dispose of just close to 5000-6000 tonnes of garbage per day, which was actually the level of the solid waste generated in the city a few years ago.

However, since then, the quantity of garbage generated per day has increased to close to 7000 metric tonnes.

The result! Today, one finds garbage littered almost everywhere in the city - in the nallahs, parks and also on roads.

MCD sources say that the garbage littered on roads and parks gives rise to various diseases besides being unhygeinic and unpleasant.

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