The solid waste management Rules (2016) mandate all hotels and restaurants to ensure segregation of waste and its collection in separate streams

With the city's dumping grounds reaching their saturation limit, the BMC is taking steps to ensure that wet waste processing is implemented at the earliest. Municipal chief Ajoy Mehta has ordered civic officials to ensure that societies and commercial complexes generating over 100 kg garbage find their own wet garbage solution. If they fail to, no wet waste will be picked up by BMC workers.