thane the thane municipal corporation has decided to permanently shut the diva dumping yard after 30 years the civic body will dump the nearly 750mt waste generated daily from the city and suburbs at the nearby bhandarli project municipal commissioner abhijit bangar informed on tuesday the announcement has come as a welcome relief for lakhs of diva residents who have been complaining of health hazards due to the unscientific dumping of the waste at the dump yard the issue had become a contentious issue and was even on the cards of parties ahead of the state and even local elections we have stopped all forms of dumping at the diva dumping ground and the same is now being processed at a temporary facility constructed at bhandarli a few kilometres away from the city fringes near diva the work on constructing a fullfledged waste to energy facility is being done at daighar where the entire load will be shifted gradually on a permanent basis in the next few months said bangar