Ahmedabad street vendors must keep bins for dry, wet waste or face confiscation

The Amdavad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) teams will conduct surprise inspections in different areas, instructing hawkers, even street vendors, and stall owners will have to keep two separate dustbins for wet and dry waste. 

Those who fail to segregate wet and dry waste, or those who throw garbage on the roads, will be fined by the AMC. The teams will first explain the cleanliness rules, but if vendors continue to throw garbage on the road even after being warned, their belongings will be seized.

As per the Swachh Survekshan guidelines and Solid Waste Management Rules–2016, hawkers with handcarts, stalls, vehicles, street vendors, food stalls, and other types of mobile vendors will now be required to keep separate bins for wet and dry waste.

Wet waste must be thrown into the green dustbin — such as leftovers, fruit and vegetable peels, spoiled food, used tea leaves and coffee grounds, coconut shells, etc.

Dry waste must be thrown into the blue dustbin — such as plastic, paper, thermocol, water pouches, wafer/biscuit wrappers, glass, metal, etc.

This segregated waste must then be handed over separately to the door-to-door garbage collection vehicles in the compartments designated for wet and dry waste. Under no circumstances should waste be thrown on the road, into the drainage system, or elsewhere.