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Draft rules formulated by the Centre for the disposal of municipal waste may lead to proliferation of potentially hazardous incineration plants all over the country, fear environmentalists, who have approached court seeking redressal. They claim the draft municipal waste rules, 2013, in its present form, encourages burning of municipal solid waste in waste-to-energy plants instead of their segregation and recycling. Environmentalists contend, once segregated, that a part of the waste may be turned into compost while the left out portion could either be recycled or dumped in a land-fill site.In reality segregation rarely happens. Activists fear, ignoring recommendations of a Parliamentary Standing Committee and scientific wisdom, the government may take recourse to these rules to bring in more incineration plants for burning the garbage.