Ajoy Mehta

To ensure that dry waste, which comprises a large volume of plastic, is processed effectively, civic chief Ajoy Mehta has asked officials of the Solid Waste Management department to come up with a standard dry waste segregation model, which can be replicated across all wards. While there are just 16 centres in the city and 21 still on paper, the BMC wants to develop a standard model, so that dry waste is either processed on site or is distributed to the authorised recyclers.