A woman segregates plastic waste gathered from garbage dumps for recycling, at a scrapyard on the outskirts of Bengaluru in September 2024. | AFP India’s environment ministry notified the new solid ...

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is aiming to achieve 100% waste segregation at source by January 2027, according to a submission made by the civic body to the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

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.

While the BSWML insisted on improving segregation of waste at source, contractors argued that segregation is the responsibility of the waste producer, not the collector.