The collection of MSW is the responsibility of corporations/
municipalities. The predominant system of collection
in most of the cities is through communal bins placed at
various points along the roads, and sometimes this leads
to the creation of unauthorized open collection points.
Efforts to organize house-to-house collection are just starting
in many megacities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore,
Madras and Hyderabad with the help of NGOs. It has
been observed that many municipalities have employed private
contractors for secondary transportation from the
communal bins or collection points to the disposal sites.