Overview
- Urban Development Minister Ashish Sood directed an area-wide drone survey of Bhalswa with a detailed report due in 10 days.
- Six anti-smog guns and 12 water sprinklers are to be installed immediately to suppress dust from processing operations.
- The site receives roughly 4,000 metric tonnes of fresh waste daily, with over 800 truck trips burning nearly 7,000 litres of diesel.
- Officials report about 6.88 million tonnes of legacy waste have been biomined out of 10.9 million, leaving a backlog of roughly 4 million tonnes.
- Ten additional acres have been allocated for wet-waste processing slated to start by December 2025, alongside new directives to prevent landfill fires affecting nearby neighborhoods.