DINDIGUL: Despite implementation of solid waste management and privatisation of garbage clearance in 50 per cent of total 48 wards within the municipal limits, garbage clearance becomes a daunting task for Dindigul municipality. Heaps of garbage in street corners and on prime roads is a common sight within the town limit. Existing garbage dumping yard near Murugabhavanam is surrounded by several residential colonies and quarters for telephone employees, thanks to massive expansion of the town limit on Dindigul-Palani Road. With no proper implementation of solid waste management, burning of wastes is the only mode of destroying urban wastes. Smoke emanating from the yard not only pollutes atmosphere but also affects health of residents living in nearby areas. The municipality does not clear garbage collected in large bins placed in several places. For example, big bins on Nandhanvanam Road have been overflowing for the past 10 days. Palani Road and Siruvathur Road are other prime roads littered with garbage. Open area behind Nehruji Memorial Higher Secondary School too has been used as garbage collection and transit point. Garbage dumps attract stray dogs, pigs, become breeding centre for mosquitoes and flies posing grave threat to health of residents, mostly poor sections of people. Earlier, the municipality had plans to shift the dumping yard to the outskirts of the town near Ponnimandurai. But the project was still on paper only. It also identified a vacant site a few kilometres away from Natham-Dindigul main road. Later, it was kept in abeyance for the reasons known to officials. Already, several tanks, major ground water sources of the town, had been transformed into dumping yards for garbage and collection point of sewage water. Unsafe transportation of wastes from different places to the dumping yard is a disturbing factor to road users. The municipality drivers transport garbage in open lorries and tractor trailers. Waste flow in the air and litter the roads during travel. Effective clearance of garbage and proper recycling and reuse of wastes will have much impact in handling large amount garbage, said environmentalists.