Four bins upstairs, two bins downstairs My mother asked me a good question and I did not have an answer ready. She knows about the four bins now. Wet, dry, sanitary, special care. She has heard me say it often enough. So she asked the obvious thing. Fine, we keep four bins in the kitchen. Then what? There are two bins downstairs in our building. Where do the other two go? Are they going to sit inside the house filling up while we wait for somebody to come and want them? Fair question. Nobody wants two extra bins sitting in my house either. I had to go and read the rule to answer her. Rule 5(1)(b) of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026, says every waste generator shall "segregate and store the waste generated by them in four separate streams at source namely wet waste, dry waste, sanitary waste and special care waste; and handover segregated waste to authorised waste pickers or waste collectors as per the direction or notification by the local authorities from time to time...
