Expressing dismay over Tiruppur Corporation having been dumping the waste generated by its residents inside abandoned quarries for years together, the Madras High Court on Tuesday permitted the civic body to set up a temporary waste storage site at Iduvai village until it establishes enough number of micro composting centres within the Corporation limits.
Justice V. Lakshminarayanan granted permission for the temporary site for a maximum period of six months beginning from December 15, 2025 despite stiff opposition by the residents of Iduvai village who did not want the waste generated by the Corporation residents in their backyard. The judge also gave them five days time to challenge his order before a Division Bench of the High Court.
He lamented that the Corporation had been dumping the waste at the abandoned quarries in Mudalipalayam between 2011 and 2021. When residents of Mudalipalayam protested, it shifted the dumping to other areas, but came back again to Mudalipalayam forcing a resident P. Velusamy, represented by senior counsel T. Mohan, to file a writ petition against such dumping of unsegregated garbage in Mudalipalayam as well as Nallur.
The judge passed an interim order on October 10, 2025 directing the civic body to store the water only at the micro composting facilities available in Tiruppur and went about finding a solution to the problem since it was reported that the Corporation generates 573 tonnes of municipal waste every day. He said, ideally, people should not generate waste or dispose of the waste within their homes.
