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The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon, assisted by non-government organisations and citizens’ groups, plans to rope in the hundreds of waste-collectors in the city to encourage waste segregation at source as part of its plan to de-centralise waste management. As per extremely conservative estimates, about 450 metric tonnes of solid municipal waste is generated in Gurgaon everyday and is dumped at Bhandwari Village on the Gurgaon-Faridabad Expressway. Also, more than 600 metric tonnes of waste from Faridabad is dumped at the same site. But the waste treatment plant at the site has been dysfunctional for over six months now and is unable to handle the growing inflow of waste. The MCG is thus mulling promotion of waste segregation at source to ensure that most of the waste is recycled in order to reduce the burden on the lone landfill site.