Summary:
In 2017, two coloured bins were distributed to people to encourage them to segregate waste — dry waste in blue bins and green waste in green bins. Had the civic body paid attention to the findings, city would not have slipped to this rank. Waste segregation at household level doesn’t kick offA whopping amount of Rs 3 crore was spent on purchasing the twin coloured bins — blue and green — to distribute among city residents for waste segregation. MC on the lines of Indore had decided to take over the collection which led to protests by garbage collectors. Door-to-door garbage collection in Chandigarh is done by independent garbage collectors and they are not under the MC..