pile of legacy waste is lying at the plant in bandhwari an estimate puts it at 25 lakh tonnes or more out of this over 11 lakh tonnes is nonbiodegradable including plastic activists have been criticising this delay in clearing the backlog it is not rocket science to segregate waste accumulation will lead to degradation of the quality of nonbiodegradable waste making it less recyclable with each passing day says vivek kamboj an environmental activistsegregation at the primary level is another way and probably the first step to an efficient plastic waste management system a large part of the plastic waste we collect is not contaminated and our vendors easily recycle it to block tiles to produce energy the same model can be followed for household waste management says seema das patra from enviro a private company that manages waste for over 200 commercial establishments in the city