Table 3 depicts the status of sanitary landfills
in the surveyed cities.Greater Mumbai and Ludhiana that generate 6500 and 850 TPD waste respectively
(Figure 2) have indicated that they supply the entire quantum of waste collected to the landfill, whereas
Kochi supplies the minimum quantum of waste to its dumpsite and most of it is composted (250 TPD
generated of which only 25 TPD is sent to dumpsites). In Nutshell, the survey depicts-