Following a series of fire outbreaks at the Deonar dumping ground in 2016, the Bombay HC had passed an order stating the civic body will not be allowed to dump waste at Deonar and Mulund after June 30, 2017. However, this was later extended as BMC failed to provide an alternative. BMC floated tenders in March in order to process the waste to produce electricity, for the construction of a plant that will process 600 tonnes of waste to generate 10 MV (megavolt) of electricity daily. If successful, two more plants will be constructed.