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Solid Waste Management

We handle municipal solid waste from the doorstep through to processing, primary collection and transportation, source segregation support, micro compost centre and Material Recovery Facility operations, fresh waste processing, and biomining of legacy dumpsites.

WET / DRY MRF / COMPOST COMPOST RECOVERED REJECT LEGACY MOUND REDUCING
Value is decided at the bin. Mixed waste arriving at a facility produces reject, not compost.
Chain
Household to processing to disposal
Facilities
MCC, MRF, biomining
Deployed
Vehicles, machinery, conservancy staff
Evidence
Weighbridge and disposal records
COLLECTED SCREENED SOIL, BACK TO SITE RDF TO OFFTAKE RECYCLABLE AND INERTS REJECT TO LANDFILL EVERY FRACTION LEAVES WITH A DOCUMENTED DESTINATION
How the work runs

Every fraction, and where it goes

Segregation only counts if it survives the vehicle and the yard. Soil back to the site, RDF and recyclables to offtake, reject to landfill, each with a weighbridge record.

Segregation is what makes everything downstream work

A processing facility fed with mixed waste produces very little of value and a great deal of reject. The economics of solid waste management are set at the point of collection, which is why our collection work is built around keeping wet and dry streams genuinely separate rather than simply clearing bins, the outcome SWM Rules 2016 actually requires. On the legacy side, biomining reclaims land a municipality already owns and is otherwise unable to use, and removes a standing environmental liability.

02Full scope
Collection and transportDoor to door primary collection across wardsRoute planning and coverage monitoringSecondary transportation to processing or disposalDeployment of vehicles, drivers and sanitation manpower
Segregation and processingSource segregation drives and compliance monitoringMicro compost centre operation and maintenanceMaterial Recovery Facility set up and operationFresh waste processing and composting
Legacy wasteDumpsite volume survey and characterisationBiomining and screening of legacy wasteFraction separation, offtake and disposal routingLand reclamation and closure documentation
03How an engagement runs

What we are usually asked for

  • Door to door primary collection and transportation for a ward, town or full ULB
  • Source segregation drives, monitoring and compliance reporting
  • Micro compost centre operation and maintenance
  • Material Recovery Facility (MRF) set up and operation
  • Fresh waste processing and composting operations
  • Legacy waste biomining and dumpsite bioremediation
  • Deployment of vehicles, machinery and sanitation manpower

What the department receives

  • Defined collection coverage, route plan and frequency
  • Segregation compliance monitoring and reporting
  • Vehicles, equipment and trained manpower deployed to the contract
  • Processing throughput and recovered material accounting
  • Reclaimed land area and closure documentation on biomining works
04Who this is for
Municipal CorporationsMunicipalitiesTown PanchayatsGovernment DepartmentsIndustrial and commercial establishments

Scope, documentation and billing are set up to match how each of these bodies actually procures and audits, rather than one format applied to all of them.

05Questions we are asked
How is biomining of a legacy dumpsite priced and scheduled?
Pricing is normally per cubic metre or per tonne of legacy waste processed, so the first step is quantifying the dump, area, depth and density, established by survey rather than estimate, because volume assumptions are where these contracts go wrong. Duration depends on volume, screening capacity deployed and monsoon interruption. We quote against a measured volume, not a guessed one.
What fractions are recovered from legacy waste, and where do they go?
Typically soil like fine fraction, combustible RDF fraction, inert construction material and recoverable recyclables, with proportions varying considerably by dumpsite age and composition. Each fraction needs a confirmed destination before work starts, RDF offtake in particular, and that destination should be written into the contract, not assumed.
Do you supply the vehicles and manpower, or does the ULB provide them?
Either arrangement works and it is set by the tender. We can deploy vehicles, equipment and sanitation manpower as part of scope, or operate assets the ULB already owns. Where we operate ULB vehicles we agree the maintenance and breakdown boundary in writing before mobilisation.
Can you help a town panchayat meet SWM Rules 2016 compliance?
Yes. The practical gaps are usually segregation at source, functioning processing capacity for wet waste, a route for dry recoverables and closure of the legacy dump. We scope work against those gaps and against what a body of that size can realistically sustain in operating cost after the contract ends.
Where it goes wrong

Four ways solid waste management quietly fails.

Not a list of risks in the abstract. These are the specific things we are called in to correct, and what we check for before quoting anything.

  1. 01

    Collection routed by habit, not by generation

    Most collection shortfalls are routing and vehicle utilisation problems, not headcount problems. We measure before adding staff.

  2. 02

    Segregation lost between the bin and the yard

    Wet and dry separated at the household and then tipped together achieves nothing. The vehicle and the yard have to hold the separation.

  3. 03

    Compost that never leaves the centre

    A micro compost centre with no offtake becomes a second dumpsite. Offtake is planned with the operation, not after it.

  4. 04

    Biomining without a disposal record

    Soil, RDF, inerts and metal each need a documented destination. Without it the reclamation cannot be certified.

Tell us the tonnage and the site.

Daily generation, the number of wards, and whether there is a legacy dump. That is enough for us to size a workable processing arrangement.

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