The civic body's push for recycling the city's plastic and dry waste has hit a roadblock. Despite getting responses from six companies for setting up three material recovery centres to collect, segregate and recycle dry waste, the BMC has received only one bid leaving the two other plants with no takers.

Currently, NGOs, roped in the BMC, collect the city's dry waste which is then taken to segregation centres where the waste is sorted. Civic officials from the Solid Waste Management department said that the NGO workers are not able to collect all the dry waste generated by the city. "Around 250 metric tonnes of plastic and dry waste is collected every day while the city produces around 800-1,000 metric tonnes of dry waste. Once we have contractors on board, we hope to increase the collection up to 500 metric tonnes," said Ashok Khaire, deputy municipal commissioner.