India, July 17 -- In a major step toward sustainable waste management, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has successfully completed the biomining of the Singhola silt dumping site along GT Karnal Road, flattening a mound of nearly 800,000 tonnes of waste and freeing up 7.2 acres of land.

Senior municipal officials said the Singhola site, located near Khampur village, marks the fourth major biomining project undertaken by the corporation after the legacy waste sites at Bhalswa, Okhla, and Ghazipur. Unlike the massive landfill mounds at those locations, Singhola was a smaller but critical site that had become saturated due to the dumping of years of desilting waste from the Capital's drains.

"This site was allotted to the MCD in 20...