Chandigarh, July 22 -- Only 59,000 metric tonnes of legacy waste, from the third and final mountain of garbage, is left for bioremediation at the Dadumajra landfill, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) claimed in a statement on Monday.

Two massive mountains, holding 5 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) and 8 LMT waste, had come up at the site in the past decades as a result of inadequate waste processing facilities in the city. While the 5 LMT waste was processed and cleared by December 2022, MC had set the deadline for completing the bio-remediation of 8 LMT by July 2023.

But it was extended five times: First to December 2023, then to March 2024, June, October and then finally to December 2024. The target was eventually achieved in Februar...