More than three months after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) banned third-party agencies from collecting waste from bulk waste generators, organic waste from hotels, schools and housing societies in Matunga and Sion will now be used to power the biomethanation plant at Sion Hospital.

Sion Hospital was among five hospitals chosen in 2023 for a pilot project to generate fuel from processed organic waste and use it to run their kitchens. At present, two hospitals — GTB and Sion — have operational biomethanation plants as part of the civic body’s larger plan to decentralise organic waste processing at the ward level.