“Educating people is one part of stopping open dumping, but we are also planning to conduct enforcement drives in a big way to tackle this menace,” Adconkar said.
He said the corporation has begun setting up manned waste collection centres to provide citizens and businesses with designated locations for disposal of waste.
“If we simply create transfer stations, they eventually turn into dumping sites. So we have started manned collection centres at three locations,” he said.
Adconkar added that such centres would help reduce illegal dumping and minimise the cost involved in retrieving waste from roadsides, culverts and water bodies.
