Source: Indian Centre for Plastics in Environment (ICPE), Mumbai.
Reproduced from Echo Echoes Vol. 6, Issue 4, October - December, 2005
The Municipal Corporation of
Brihan Mumbai has initiated a
campaign to remove community solid waste storage centers from public roads in phases by providing services for point-to-point collection of segregated solid waste by bell ringing vehicles at fixed times.
The MCBM hereby notifies the following rules to be known as “The Municipal Corporation of Brihan Mumbai Municipal Solid Waste (Prohibition of Littering and Regulation of Segregation Storage, Delivery and Collection) Rules 2006” under Section 368 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act 1888.
Abstracts from the Draft Notice of Municipal Corporation of Brihan Mumbai
* No one shall litter or dirty any public place and each citizen will be responsible to keep the city clean. Failure to do so shall attract fines.
* All waste to be segregated by the generator. Failure to segregate shall invite fines.
* All waste to be held with waste-generator or at designated spots till time of picking up by MCGM vehicle that uses the bell-ringing concept.
* Citizens to be urged to compost biodegradable waste. MCGM will provide infrastructure as well as incentives for such initiatives.
* A formal close and sustained association between MCBM and civil society to lead to an overall clean city. The existing structure of ALM’s/local citizen’s organizations will be strengthened and systems of citizens’ reporting and monitoring will be established.
* MCGM will ensure that all the systems to support and facilitate the citizen’s responsibility (as generator) are also simultaneously in place.
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