Keralam reclaims over 120 acres from legacy waste landfills
The state of Kerala has successfully reclaimed 121 acres of land by processing legacy waste across 29 dump sites as of July 2026. While remediation is ongoing at other sites, progress has been hindered by adverse weather conditions and administrative delays.
Why it matters
This reflects significant progress in environmental management and urban waste remediation in India, highlighting the challenges of large-scale ecological restoration.
Keralam has reclaimed around 121 acres after processing about 15.45 tonnes of legacy (old) waste from 29 dump sites across various districts as of July 2026.
Of the 59 identified legacy dump sites in the State, remediation has been completed at 29 sites so far. It is progressing at 20 sites while the work has not yet started in the remaining 10 sites. A total of about 4.1 lakh tonnes of waste at these 30 sites required scientific remediation.
About 3.3 lakh tonnes of waste has not been processed yet in the 20 sites, where the biomining work is progressing, according to the estimates by the Department of Local Self Government.
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