How Swachch Bharat survey may have penalised clean cities
(WorldNews Environment)

NEW DELHI: Alappuzha in Kerala is a `waste smart` city according to recent assessment by a Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) team. Reason? It has managed to achieve 100% waste segregation in 12 of the city`s 23 wards. It doesn`t landfill, instead a majority of the households have biogas plants and composting systems. But as per the Centre`s recent Swachch Survekshan survey 2017, Alappuzha ranks at 380. The top three `cleanest` cities according to the Swachch survey-Indore, Bhopal and Visakhapatnam, have a centralized system of waste management. While these do have door-to-door waste collection and efficient transportation of waste, CSE points out that all three cities do not segregate...