Around 400 tonnes of plastic waste is generated in Pune every day and the Pune Municipal Corporation is now looking for an agency that will take the waste and make different recycled products.
The scientific landfill site in Uruli Devachi and Phursungi will reach its capacity in the next six months. The PMC has decided to set up a new one in the Pune Cantonment jurisdiction on an eight-acre land and create an additional one on a five-acre land in the premises of the garbage depot in Uruli Devachi.