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With Indian cities facing mounting pressure from rapid urbanisation and infrastructure growth, managing construction and demolition (C&D) waste and municipal solid waste has become a critical governance challenge. Mumbai, one of the country’s most densely populated metros, is attempting to address this through new processing plants, waste-to-energy projects, biomining of legacy dumps, and expanded recovery systems. Kiran Dighavkar, Deputy Municipal Commissioner of the solid waste management department at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), discusses with Mayuri Phadnis the scale of the challenge, ongoing initiatives, technology adoption, and the pathway toward landfill reduction and resource....