Overview
- Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has made a QR code live that sends residents to a booking webpage for free doorstep collection of old mattresses and household furniture.
- The webpage requires users to share their location, item details, photos and a contact number so GHMC can verify service availability in a given area before scheduling a pickup.
- The move responds to repeated findings during monsoon desilting that discarded mattresses, chairs and wires were clogging nalas and contributing to sewage overflow and localized flooding.
- GHMC has publicly urged residents not to dump bulky waste on streets or in drains and to use the pickup service so items can be recycled safely.
- The announcement fills a gap flagged earlier about the lack of a continuous bulky-waste disposal system, but the city has not published details on capacity, exact coverage or rollout timelines which will determine how widely the service reduces drain blockages.