The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to establish a new scientific landfill site in the Pune Cantonment jurisdiction on an eight-acre land and create an additional one on a five-acre land in the premises of the garbage depot in UruliDevachi because the capacity of its current scientific landfill site in UruliDevachi-Phursungi will only last for the next six months.
“The PMC has successfully achieved the target of stopping open waste dumping. The entire waste is processed at various plants across the city, and the rejected waste is disposed of at a scientific landfill site as per the law,” said additional municipal commissioner KunalKhemnar.
He said that the present scientific landfill site in UruliDevachi and Phursungi would reach its capacity in the next six months.
“The PMC has to have a new scientific landfill site ready in the next few months. We have decided to join hands with the Pune Cantonment Board to develop a landfill site on their land. This would be used jointly by the PMC and Cantonment Board. It is being developed on eight-acre land,” Khemnar said.
