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Earlier it was around 350 tonne.The municipal solid waste management plant has a capacity to process 500 tonne garbage and was not being used to its full capacity due to a number of reasons.“Now, the plant is operating in full capacity. Hence, the quality and quantity of compost has increased,” the engineer said.The NMC’s waste management plant was raging under controversy over issues such as defunct machinery due to lack of skilled manpower and unnecessary purchase of machinery. In fact, we have independent garbage vans to collect debris,” the engineer said. Nashik: The sale of compost to farmers by the civic body has increased from about 30 tonne two years ago to 4,500 tonne so far this year.The production of compost has gone up due to improved segregation of waste at source, optimum garbage collection, proper management of the plant, among other things, civic officials said.For the past couple of years, the daily garbage collection is 550-600 tonne. Whenever the machine stopped running, we had to make proposals and present it in meetings for approval..