Pic: HDMC officials create awareness on segregating waste at household level in HubballiHubballi: Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) is facing challenges in achieving 100% waste segregation ...

The central government has revised the waste management system implemented from April 1, requiring all households to segregate their waste into four categories. The earlier two-bin system will now ...

Thanks to new guidelines, waste management in India will shift toward a circular economy, embedding extended producer responsibility and ‘polluter pays’ principle into the waste governance structure.

Waste segregation across the city currently stands at around 50%, with some wards achieving over 90% segregation levels, while others remain far below the average.