Hyderabad residents can now request the collection of bulky household waste and wooden items every Saturday by scanning a QR code, according to the Cyberabad Municipal Corporation (CMC). The civic body has urged residents to use the collection facility for old sofas, broken furniture and unwanted wooden items instead of leaving them on roadsides or in public places.
The service is intended to address a category of household waste that is difficult to dispose of through regular collection arrangements. Large furniture and wooden items can obstruct footpaths, occupy road edges and add to the burden on neighbourhood sanitation workers when they are abandoned in public spaces.
Under the CMC’s arrangement, residents can inform the corporation by scanning the QR code and use the Saturday collection schedule for bulky waste. The report did not provide details on the geographic coverage of the service, the response time after a booking, whether residents will be charged, or the exact locations where the QR code is available.
The announcement places responsibility for bulky-item disposal within a more formal municipal channel rather than leaving residents to arrange informal transport or discard such material near open plots, roadsides and public spaces. The corporation has specifically identified old sofas, broken furniture and unwanted wooden items as materials that should be handed over through the collection process.
In a separate waste-management effort, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) said it had collected around 5 metric tonnes of floral waste generated during the Bathukamma festivities. The collected flowers were transported to designated composting yards for processing into organic compost.
The GHMC said the initiative supports eco-friendly festival celebrations and responsible disposal of floral waste. Processing the flowers at composting yards also creates a route for converting festival waste into an organic resource instead of allowing it to accumulate in public spaces or enter mixed waste streams.
The two municipal actions address different waste flows but point to the operational challenge of separating material at the point of collection. Bulky household items require scheduled pickup, while festival-related floral waste requires organised collection and processing facilities. Both depend on residents using designated civic channels and municipal agencies moving the waste to the appropriate destination.
The CMC’s Saturday service and the GHMC’s composting effort were announced as separate measures. The supplied report does not state whether the two corporations will introduce additional collection days, expand the QR-code booking system or publish further information on processing capacity. For residents, the immediate instruction is to contact the CMC through the QR-code facility for bulky household and wooden waste and to avoid dumping such material on roadsides or in public places.
