The private agency will have to screen the incoming construction and demolition waste material at the processing site, and conduct various tests and investigations to determine the useful constituents that can be recovered and recycled.
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.
In the competition, Dhankawadi regional office is in leading followed by the Hadapsar-Mundhwa regional office, Deputy Commissioner of Solid Waste Department Asha Raut informed.
NGOs joining hands with PMC to conduct a collection drive on Sunday; 300 centres across city will accept unused and junked items and scrap them scientifically; reusable items will be recycled and donated to the needy