The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has announced that all 4,600 community trash bins in Mumbai will be removed by 2030. The move is part of an INR 4,000 crore waste management project that will bring in private contractors trucks to collect waste across the city.
Currently, trucks and dumpers collect garbage from these community bins and transport it to waste processing facilities or landfills. Under the new system, waste will be picked up directly from homes by vans and sent for treatment.
The removal of the bins will begin this year. BMC plans to eliminate about 25% of the bins by 2026 and 50% by 2027. These bins are usually placed in open public spaces like road crossings and are many times uncovered. This leads to spillage and garbage overflow on the streets.
The large containers are mainly used by people in slum areas, where door-to-door garbage collection is currently not available. But in the new plan, door-to-door waste collection will be available to all parts of Mumbai.
This will reduce the need for community bins and allow their gradual removal. In the past, BMC had issued ward-level tenders to remove the bins, but the results were limited. This is the first time a centralised plan is being introduced for this purpose.
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