Bangalore: The Government has decided to shift the waste from Mandur to Mavallipura. However, while this may be easy, it won’t solve the problem as the waste processing unit at Mavallipura can only take segregated waste.

Therefore the garbage now dumped in Mandur will have to be segregated into dry and wet waste before it’s taken to Mavallipura and segregation will have to start at home.  Also, there is a backlog: about 18 lakh tonnes of garbage dumped at  Mavallipura between 2007 and 2012 is not yet processed.

Officials of Green and Clean Solutions Private Limited, which is in charge of running this waste processing unit now dysfunctional said that during recent discussions with the BBMP, it agreed to provide segregated wet waste to be composted. The problem is the existing mountain of waste on the premises of the waste processing unit. “If more waste comes here for processing, the existing waste will turn into leachate.”

The unit, which has the capacity to process 300 tonnes of waste per day, was opened in 2007. BBMP was dumping 500 tonnes of garbage a day.  The landfill was shut down in July 2012, following directions from the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board.

A senior BBMP official claimed Rs 150 crore will be invested to process waste in Mavallipura, and work has already commenced.

Sadly, the processing unit does not even have a compound wall, and the road leading to it from Mavallipura main road is a mud track.