India, May 24 -- Even as the BMC is pushing for greater segregation of garbage and has mandated large housing societies to process their own waste, it is struggling to deal with kitchen waste, which constitutes the biggest chunk of garbage collected from the city. Currently, of the estimated 7,000 metric tonnes of garbage generated in the city, over 72% comprises kitchen waste or wet waste.

While the BMC has already signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) to convert kitchen waste to compressed bio gas (CBG), it faces operational challenges here. "For the conversion of the wet waste into CBG, MGL has demanded pure organic kitchen waste," said deputy municipal commissioner (solid waste management) Ki...