KOLKATA: The city and the rest of Bengal are all set to do away with the mountains of legacy waste in next two years with aggressive biomining and segregation of wastes at source, city’s mayor and state’s urban development minister Firhad Hakim said at an environmental workshop.
“The legacy dump sites are one of the biggest sources of air pollution because of constant methane generation and fire which burns all assorted waste and emanates toxic fumes. This is the reason why we have engaged fire tenders at the landfill sites to extinguish the flame,” Bengal Pollution Control Board chairman Kalyan Rudra said at the workshop organised by Climate Trends.
