Build Onsite Waste Processing Unit: MCC Gives Three Months Time to Apartments in Mangalore

Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner Akshy Sridhar has given three more months to establishments generating solid waste and apartments with more than 30 households to construct on-site composting units and process waste at source. Despite notices being issued to all bulk solid waste generators, including hotels, hospitals, lodges, wedding halls, catering units and apartments, to get the units constructed as per the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, the directions were not fully complied with, noted a follow-up meeting of the MCC in Mangalore on July 27. Double the amount of fine will be imposed every day starting from November 1 during during the waste collection drive, incase bulk solid waste generators fail to comply with the guidelines, MCC said.