Integrated Solid Waste Management in Naigaon, Vasai-Virar.

Along Naigaon's creek edge, waste that is not collected tends to end up in the mangroves and the water. Plastic carried by the monsoon drains snags in the roots and stays there. Large complexes, construction sites and commercial premises here need a system that works every day: separation at source, covered storage away from drains, reliable collection and records. We set this up with the society or site management and link dry waste to recyclers who will actually collect it.

Naigaon is the southern gateway to Vasai-Virar, the first station after the railway crosses the Vasai creek from Bhayandar. Much of its land is low and flat, and until recently a great deal of it was salt pans, paddy and marsh along the creek, with mangroves fringing the water. Over the last two decades large residential layouts have grown up on this land, especially on the eastern side, alongside older villages and some industrial and warehouse sheds. The creek, the tides and the monsoon still shape the ground here more than anywhere else in the town.