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NEW DELHI: A group of students from IIT-Delhi may have an answer or two to the problem of garbage dumping in cities. “The attempt is to create an intelligent and conscious citizen,” Katiyar said. And then there are the fallen leaves that add to the waste. Segregation doesn’t happen that well and most of the waste goes to landfill.”With piles of waste at Ghazipur , Bhalswa and Okhla spewing out toxic gases, contaminating groundwater with leachate and degrading the soil, the problem has assumed gigantic proportions. The initiative, titled ‘Nirmalya’, under Enactus IIT-Delhi, aims to reduce the amount of garbage ending up in the overburdened landfills through decentralised composting.Katiyar said while home composting had picked up, it had a variety of problems — odour, rodents, excessive composting time and bad quality of compost produced..