Having exhausted two entire dumping grounds in the city, the daily refuse Mumbaikars generate whose spillover can be seen in piles embellishing street corners every few feet now threatens to engulf the two remaining ones at Deonar and Mulund. The sprawling expanse of litter has got civic authorities concerned enough to take steps to reduce the garbage being cast off in order to increase the life of dumping grounds.

The Deonar dumping ground is one of the two dumping grounds in the city, the other being at Mulund. Both are racing towards being full. The civic body wants residents to separate their garbage into wet and dry and dump it in separate bins. File pic