Pragmatic ways for municipal solid waste management (MSW)in India
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management started receiving attention from 1996 after a PIL on the subject. Supreme court approved Solid waste management rules, 2016 following which detailed manual was circulated to all administrators.
SWM ,2016 urged all waste generators to segregate dry and wet wastes and give it to local authorities for conveyance and processing. As there have been major gaps, NGT authorised by Supreme Court has now held state governments responsible for
deficiency in management and imposed a “penalty “that has to be kept in “ring-faced “account for creating needful infrastructure for total management as per norms in near future.
Pragmatic actions
-Work out end to end costing for different types of wastes: dry, wet, mixed, hazardous etc
-Apply Polluter Pays Principle and recover all the charges from waste generators in proportion to quantum
-Create rules and ecosystem for management of wastes suitable for biogas and organic fertiliser (kitchen, food and animal wastes)
-Put stiff penalties for mixed waste to push people to carry out segregation
-Work out “Zero wet /mixed waste or “policy for bulk generators
-Encourage waste entrepreneurs in business mode all over the country
-Encourage leasing of wastelands and wasted (surplus lands with trusts, temples, waqf boards, enterprises, institutions, government departments, farmers etc) for processing facility all over the country
-All garden waste to be converted into revenue generating products like briquettes, RDF, compost etc in business mode
-Removal of subsidy and facilitate business by a combination of recovery of all costs including health and environment hazard from waste generators, revenue from resource recovery, revenue from value added products etc
-Encourage Decentralised and localised processing and management to reduce logistics costs
-Standardise equipments for all types of MSW processing and management and bring them to the GEM platform for seamless techno commercial transactions
-Throw open bio mining to all bidders in the world and ask them to install their equipments on trial without payment for one year and demand payment on success as per agreement
-Segregation, logistics and non-littering to be major driver for success along with recovery of full costs from waste generators
-Fasten liability and stiff penalty on defaulting local governments or employees
S B Dangayach
Founder Trustee
Innovative Thought Forum
www.itf-india.com
sbdangayach@gmail.com
+919998822680