About City Cleaning
City Cleaning follows the work of municipal corporations and the systems behind it. Profiles of Navi Mumbai, Pune and Vasai-Virar look at door-to-door collection, street sweeping, material recovery facilities and legacy waste processing. Lucknow's move to process all its daily municipal solid waste, its construction and demolition waste plant, Prayagraj's legacy waste model and waste management at the Mahakumbh are also covered.
Other articles deal with Kerala's Haritha Mitram app for tracking garbage, Mumbai's collection of sanitary and special care waste, Bhubaneswar's door-to-door e-waste drive, biogas and biofuel plants, floating trash barriers for rivers, and how public toilets should be designed and maintained. Reports on per capita waste generation and the circular economy put the work in context.
The section is written for municipal officials, urban local body staff, waste contractors and the FM and equipment companies that work with cities.
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- India to Generate 0.7 kg Waste Per Person Per Day by 2025: Report Report figures on how much waste each Indian generates a day and why it is getting harder to manage
- Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation A Model of Efficiency & Innovation How Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation plans every step of its waste management
- Lucknow – Up’s First ‘Zero Fresh Waste Dump’ City How Lucknow reached full processing of its daily municipal solid waste
- Prayagraj’s Legacy Waste Revolution A Model for India’s Sustainable Future Prayagraj's model for clearing legacy waste, now being adopted across Uttar Pradesh
- Haritha Mitram App for Smart Garbage Tracking How Kerala's Haritha Mitram app tracks non-organic waste for local bodies
- Designing Public Toilets Design principles for public toilets, from space needs to user psychology
- The successful sustainability models of municipal corporations How municipal corporations are working towards Garbage Free city ratings
- From Waste to Wealth: How Circular Economy Is Reframing India’s Waste Challenge Why segregation at source decides whether India can earn from its urban waste
Questions readers ask
How much waste does one person in India generate per day?
A report covered here put it at 0.34 kg per person per day and projected a rise to 0.7 kg by 2025. Read the article
Which was the first city in Uttar Pradesh to process all its daily waste?
Lucknow became the first city in Uttar Pradesh to achieve 100% processing of its daily municipal solid waste, with no fresh waste sent to landfill. Read the article
What is special care waste?
In BMC's household collection service it includes sanitary pads, adult diapers, tampons, cotton swabs contaminated with body fluids, bandages, injection needles, razor blades and PPE kits. Read the article
What is the Haritha Mitram app?
A smart garbage management system developed by Keltron for Kerala that gives state authorities and ward officials one digital platform to monitor non-organic waste operations. Read the article