New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- The Delhi government on Wednesday said it plans to set up additional common biomedical waste treatment facilities (CBWTFs) across the capital to ease pressure on the city's two existing plants, which currently process all of Delhi's biomedical waste.

The decision was taken at a meeting on Wednesday, chaired by environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa and attended by senior officials from the National Productivity Council (NPC), the environment department and the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to work out an implementation road map.

Officials said a presentation was made to the minister outlining current and projected biomedical waste generation trends, along with possible specifications for new plants....