Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 — in force since 1 April 2026
CUREEARTH FOUNDATION
The deadline has already passed

Our Waste, Our Responsibility.

The law changed on April 1, 2026. Our habits haven’t caught up.

India’s new Solid Waste Management Rules are already in force. Four bins. Four categories. One deadline that has already passed.

Yet most of Gujarat still throws it all into one bag — wet, dry, sanitary, toxic — and hopes someone else sorts it out. Someone always does. A waste picker. A cow. A child playing in contaminated soil. Not for much longer.

The four-way sort
Wet Waste
ભીનો કચરો
Dry Waste
સુકો કચરો
Sanitary Waste
સેનેટરી કચરો
Special Care
સ્પેશિયલ કેર કચરો
The Sort
Most of Gujarat throws it into one bag.
The law says four.
Two seconds at the bin decides everything.
01
Wet Waste
ભીનો કચરો
02
Dry Waste
સુકો કચરો
03
Sanitary Waste
સેનેટરી કચરો
04
Special Care
સ્પેશિયલ કેર કચરો
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What we do

Four categories. Four commitments.

We build the compost units, the collection systems, and the community habits that make segregation automatic — not optional.

01
Wet Waste
ભીનો કચરો
If you get it wrong

Rots in a landfill instead of becoming compost.

02
Dry Waste
સુકો કચરો
If you get it wrong

Gets landfilled instead of recycled.

03
Sanitary Waste
સેનેટરી કચરો
If you get it wrong

Exposes waste workers to biological hazard.

04
Special Care
સ્પેશિયલ કેર કચરો
If you get it wrong

Poisons groundwater for decades.

From the field

See the work, not just the numbers.

A few minutes on the ground — the everyday work behind the four bins, recorded as it happened.

Field footage · CureEarth Foundation · Gujarat Volunteer With Us →
Latest achievements

Progress you can count.

1,240
metric tons of wet waste composted this year
8,600
households enrolled in verified source segregation
420
informal waste workers equipped with PPE & health camps
12
dumpsites under active bio-remediation
See Our Impact → Representative figures — replace with live data before publishing
The work

Sorting, composting, collection — the daily work behind the four bins.

The choice

Two seconds at your kitchen bin. That’s the entire ask.