Madanapalle Municipality builds a Zero Waste City under SBM-U 2.0
Madanapalle Municipality in Andhra Pradesh is implementing a zero-waste model under <strong>Swachh Bharat Mission–Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0)</strong> for segregation, processing, recycling, and legacy dumping remediation.
- SBM-U 2.0 supports urban sanitation upgrades, including solid waste management and behaviour change for cleaner cities.
- An MRF sorts segregated dry waste so recyclables can be sent to authorised recycling units and less useful mixed waste reduces.
- Windrow composting is large outdoor rows where wet biodegradable waste is composted using controlled decomposition.
- Vermi composting is composting with earthworms to convert biodegradable waste into nutrient-rich compost.
What happened: Madanapalle Municipality builds a zero-waste city pipeline under SBM-U 2.0
Madanapalle Municipality (Andhra Pradesh) adopted an integrated and structured approach to urban sanitation and solid waste management under Swachh Bharat Mission–Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0). The stated objective is to develop Madanapalle into a Zero Waste City through source segregation, scientific processing, resource recovery, and legacy waste remediation.
Madanapalle Municipality generates approximately 62 tonnes per day (TPD) of municipal solid waste, including 25.50 TPD dry waste, 36 TPD wet waste, and 0.50 TPD domestic hazardous waste. To manage this waste stream, the municipality implemented a systematic source segregation mechanism across the town and categorized waste into biodegradable, non-biodegradable, and upcycling waste.
For UPSC, Madanapalle Municipality’s model can be used to explain how SBM-U 2.0 turns “waste management” into measurable service delivery—segregation at source, decentralized processing of wet waste, resource recovery for dry waste, and remediation of legacy dumps.
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