Archive · 22 Aug 2026
BMC Plans Local Waste Processing for Dadar’s 25-Tonne Markets
Two big markets in Dadar produce about 25 tonnes of waste every day.
About 10 tonnes comes from flowers, while 15 tonnes comes from vegetables.
The city government wants to process this waste closer to where it is created.
Flower waste could be turned into manure and incense sticks.
Vegetable waste could be turned into compost and biogas.
This would mean fewer trucks carrying waste to distant dumping grounds.
It could also reduce transport costs and create local jobs.
Officials are also working to improve cleanliness, parking and traffic around the markets.
Dadar’s flower and vegetable markets generate nearly 25 metric tonnes of waste daily.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is exploring decentralised processing facilities near the markets.
About 10 metric tonnes of floral waste could be converted into manure and incense sticks.
Around 15 metric tonnes of vegetable waste could become compost, biogas and other products.
Officials also ordered stronger cleanliness, traffic control and designated parking enforcement.
- Who
- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and Additional Municipal Commissioner Prajakta Verma Lavangare.
- What
- Officials are exploring localised facilities to process Dadar’s flower and vegetable market waste.
- When
- August 22, 2026; the inspection was reported as taking place on Saturday.
- Where
- Dadar’s Meenatai Thackeray Flower Market and Krantisinh Nana Patil Municipal Vegetable Market in Mumbai.
- Why
- To reduce transportation to dumping grounds, ease pressure on those sites, process waste at its source and create useful products.
- Total daily waste
- Nearly 25 metric tonnes from the two Dadar markets
- Floral waste
- About 10 metric tonnes daily
- Vegetable waste
- About 15 metric tonnes daily
- Proposed floral products
- Organic manure, incense sticks and other value-added products
- Proposed vegetable products
- Compost, biogas and other organic products
- Responsible civic body
- Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
- Additional measures
- Improved cleanliness, traffic management and use of designated parking spaces