🔆 Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026
📍 Wider Scope, Greater Responsibility
🟢 The Rules apply to both urban and rural local bodies.
🟢 They extend to all waste generators and landowners, whether public or private, individual or corporate.
📍 Who Comes Under the Rules?
🟢 Institutions
🟢 Industries
🟢 Commercial establishments
🟢 Airports, Ports & Railways
🟢 SEZs, Industrial Areas & Townships
🟢 Defence establishments
🟢 All waste generators
📍 Waste Segregation at Source
🟢 🟢 Wet Waste
🟢 🔵 Dry Waste
🟢 🟠 Sanitary Waste
🟢 🔴 Special Care Waste
📍 Key Message
🟢 Waste management is not only the responsibility of municipalities. Every sector and every waste generator has a role in managing the waste it produces.
🌱 A cleaner India doesn’t begin at the landfill. It begins with what each of us does with our waste.
Segregate right. Manage right.
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September 7, 2026 385 5
