Motibagh Zero Waste Plant

When GPWM established its pilot plant at the GPRA Complex, New Moti Bagh, decentralised zero-waste processing was a concept most municipalities considered impractical. Motibagh was built to settle the question: a site inside one of New Delhi's largest government residential complexes, separating waste at source and processing every fraction on-site — composting the wet stream, converting plastic to fuel, and channelling dry recyclables back into the material economy — instead of trucking mixed waste to a landfill.

Thirteen years later, the question is settled. The plant handles roughly 1.2 tonnes of waste every day: around 800 kg wet waste composted on-site, and a dry stream from which saleable material — plastic, paper, glass, metal — is recovered daily and routed to registered recyclers.

What makes Motibagh singular: it houses a plastic-to-fuel unit that has been in continuous operation for more than eight years, converting the complex's plastic waste into fuel. Very few decentralised facilities in India can claim a plastic-to-fuel unit with that operating record. It is GPWM's demonstration site — the place people visit when they want to see, not be told, that zero waste to landfill is an operating reality.

In October 2025, NDMC designated New Moti Bagh — the complex our operation serves — as one of its Anupam Colonies, recognising it for 100% source segregation and a fully circular waste system in which every stream is processed and reused on site, with dry waste sorted at an in-house materials recovery facility. It is the kind of recognition that only comes after years of operations quietly working.