Transcript SOLID WASTE MGT : THE WAY FORWARD

SOLID WASTE MGT :
THE WAY FORWARD
Mrs Almitra H Patel, Member
Supreme Court Committee for
Solid Waste Management
[email protected]
HOW IT BEGAN
’94 : Surat Plague - A Wake-Up Call
’94 : 1st Clean India Campaign by Capt JS
Velu & me: 30 cities in 30 days via Surat
’95: 2nd Clean India Campaign, 60 new cities
OPEN DUMPING OUTSIDE EVERY CITY
’96: PIL No 888/96 against all States and
UTs for hygienic waste management.
’99 : Supreme Court Committee Report.
1999 REPORT TO S.Ct:
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
“Clean Up and Flourish or Pile Up and Perish”
“A city is only as clean as its dirtiest areas”
“The best way to keep streets clean
is not to dirty them in the first place.
Aim for cities without street bins.”
Waste Mimimisation is vital.
POLICY IN A NUTSHELL
Keep “wet” & “dry” wastes separately
Doorstep collection of “wet” waste, to
Compost all bio-degradables.
Leave Recyclables to the informal sector
Landfill only Compost Rejects & inerts
No Waste-To-Energy until fully proven!
MORE GUIDELINES
Handle waste once only
(Collect in mobile bins or tipper vehicle)
Separate collection of inerts
(road dust, drain silt, debris, malba)
No Burning of Waste or Leaves
No Pesticide on Wastes
Bio-Med Waste: follow its Rules
NORMS FOR CITY MANAGERS
Remove all waste-collection points
(Retain only hand-litter bins)
All Hawkers to use mobile dustbins
(Evening collection - points for wastes)
80% on-road efficiency of vehicles.
365-day city cleaning by Beat System:
Hi-density Medium Low-density area
200-350m 400-600m 650-750 m of
road length per sweeper
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
Charge for collecting Trades Wastes
Decentralise Authority+Responsibility
Induct Public Health Engineers for
collection + transport + disposal
Amend Contract Labor Act ’70 to enable
NGO or private services in SWM
Safeguard supervisors against abuse of
Atrocities Act (action only thru Dept Head)
ADMINISTRATION
Ward Officers to be in field all morning
Involve Ward Committee members for
awareness, monitoring & implementation
Levy Administrative Charges for violators
Inter-departmental Coordination
Fixed Tenure for Municipal Commrs / EOs
DOCUMENT & SHARE
BEST PRACTICES
Waste is good material in the wrong place.
Use thin plastics in bitumen roads (8%)
Weekly Collection through school-children.
Zero-waste colonies collect wet waste for
on-site composting and beautification.
Cities excluding inerts and plastics from
waste can become “zero-waste” too !
SLUM CLEAN-UP IS EASY
Many models are working well :
1, ‘Naka-collection’ at Nashik receives waste
from homes directly into truck for onward
transport without handling.
2, Whistle-system in Blr slums where a truck
comes to entrance for collection.
3, Mumbai: Local youth paid to place TakeAway bins 8-10 am for emptying into truck.
4, Dhaka: 5-6 families share a plastic barrel
and are paid for layer-compost produced.
MANAGING WASTE at DEONAR
31.12.2003 is the deadline for setting up
waste processing and disposal facilities.
Stabilising waste CAN BE DONE AT ONCE
by placement in wind-rows, spraying with bio-cultures and
turning weekly, 1-4 times, to form dark humus in 2 months.
This can be spread around perimeter of Deonar to
cover old waste and grow flowers, maize, banana. This
green Laxman-rekha will control fires & encroachment
+ meet 2001 deadline for improving existing dumps.
WASTE-TO-ERERGY IS UNVIABLE FOR INDIA !
No energy can come from low-calorie hi-inert wastes.
IMPROVEMENTS NEED
MANAGEMENT, NOT MONEY:
Priority to essential services
Synchronised primary and secondary
collection to keep all waste off streets
Transparency: accrual-based doubleentry accounts, made open to public
Annual CLI-linked income escalations
Participatory planning for Ward works
like Banaglore’s Janaagraha
HOW INDUSTRY CAN HELP
On-site waste management + minimisation
Mera Aangan Saaf discipline for commercial areas
Eco-friendly packaging + lifecycle responsibility thru buy-back, exchange, drop-off;
Take-Back policies for domestic haz-waste:
tubelights, aerosol cans, insecticides, glass,
batteries, tyres, polystyrene cups or pkg.
Mercury-free hospitals. Insulin needle dropoff
Provide MIS guidance, communications for
SWM staff, social advtg for public motivation.
Adopt a slum or public toilet for management
and maintenance instead of parks for advtg.
ADOPT A WARD OR A
COUNCILLOR’S DREAMS
Offer help with achievements instead of money for
elections where possible.
Offer help in creating people-friendly
budget proposals or work supervision
Offer more-for-less expertise for works.
LOBBY for necessary changes in Contract Labour Act,
Atrocities Act, tenure of CEOs, debris mgt, Perform-orPerish work culture, end Waste-To-Energy subsidy,
full support and incentives for recycling industry.
Co-marketing of city compost with chemical fertiliser
for rural prosperity and their increased buying power.