Chandigarh, Feb. 14 -- After missing repeated deadlines, Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) has finally completed the bio-remediation of two garbage mountains (legacy waste) dumped at Dadumajra landfill, the civic body officials said on Thursday, adding that the work has already been started to process the remaining freshly dumped waste or the third mountain, holding a massive 1.25 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of waste, at the landfill.

The waste management journey of Chandigarh has been chequered and two legacy waste mountains of 5 LMT and 8 LMT have come up in the past decades as a result of inadequate waste processing facilities. The entire 5 LMT waste was processed by December 2022. However, when the bio-remediation of the second mount...