PMC to set up six new garbage processing plants: ESR

According to the information shared in the Environment Status Report for 2023-24 on Monday, the Pune Municipal Corporation plans to decentralise the garbage processing units and set up smaller units in various parts of the city. Accordingly, the civic body has planned to set up additional facilities to process 750 metric tonnes of garbage per day by proposing six new plants for it. According to civic body officials, Pune generates 2100 to 2200 metric tonnes of total garbage every day. Of this, wet waste generation per day- is around 950 to 1000 metric tonnes while dry garbage collection per day is 1200 metric tonnes. PMC’s solid waste department claimed that it had a daily capacity to process 900 to 950 metric tonnes of waste garbage per day.