India, May 15 -- New Delhi

Slow pace of legacy waste processing at the Ghazipur landfill site is likely to lead to waste spillover to other landfills in the city. Officials aware of the matter said the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) plans to divert around 90,000 tonnes of fresh garbage annually from the Ghazipur landfill to the Okhla landfill in southeast Delhi, citing "unstable slopes" and "space constraints" in the run-up to monsoon, as part of its biomining project to flatten Delhi's three landfills, officials aware of the matter said.

While biomining projects at three landfills-the third situated at Bhalswa-have been marred by delays due to continuing daily waste dumping, officials said that the Okhla landfill has clocked maxi...