Not segregating waste at source could prove costly for residents and others in wards from where the garbage is taken to Mavallipura waste processing plant.
The Karnataka High Court, in its recent order, has asked BBMP to enforce the law that empowers the civic body to levy penalty on those who fail to segregate waste even after educating them about it.
A Division Bench comprising Justice N.Kumar and Justice B.V. Nagarathna issued the direction when it was pointed out that 80 per cent of the waste that reaches Mavallipura plant is segregated while 20 per cent is mixed waste.
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“The BBMP has also identified eight wards from where they are getting mixed waste. Therefore, to ensure that only segregated waste is taken to Mavallipura plant, it is necessary to educate residents of the eight wards who are not segregating the waste at source. Therefore, immediate steps should be taken to educate them and also, if necessary, to enforce the law by imposing penalty,” the court said.
Though the law has already been amended for penalising those who fail to segregate waste as per the rules, the court has not asked authorities to impose the penalty until sufficient number of waste processing plants are set up.