16 years on, SMC fails to implement Solid Waste Management Rules

“Waste segregation costs nothing and takes hardly any extra time. It’s a matter of understanding and more about responsible behavior,” said an expert. Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) has failed to implement Solid Waste Management Rules —2000 (SWMR), the much needed to dispose bio-degradable and non-biodegradable waste in segregation. Under SWMR, segregation of waste at source has been declared important process as it solves half the city’s problem of waste management. Under these rules, scientific disposal of solid waste through segregation, collection and treatment and disposal in an environmentally sound manner…

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