The following steps shall be taken by the municipal authority :Organising house-to-house collection of municipal solid wastes through any of the methods, for example community bin collection (central bin), house-to-house collection, collection on regular pre-informed timings and scheduling by using bell ringing of musical vehicle (without exceeding permissible noise levels) Planning a systematic way and united effort for collection of waste from poverty areas or localities including hotels, restaurants, office complexes and commercial areas.Bio-medical wastes and industrial wastes shall not be combined with municipal solid wastes and such wastes should follow the rules separately specified for the purpose.These are the laws that are regu...
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Municipal solid waste (management and handling) rules 2000 .In this report, some problems in solid waste management in India will be discussed as well as the efforts made by the government and the residents of India to help reduce the problems in managing the solid waste generated by the residents.Overpopulation permits the more waste generation which adds to more problems to the pre-existing waste management.The main objective of the (CoE) is to develop the strategy and framework for solid waste management (SWM) and Wastewater management (WWM) in the Urban local bodies (ULBs) of India and also to established of a knowledge centre on solid waste and waste water management.Furthermore the insufficiency municipal solid waste collection and...
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Though solid waste management now exists in metropolitan cities but it is far away in semi-urban and rural areas creating all environmental and health hazards to the residents of those areas.Kumar V and Pandit R K (2013) Problems of Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities.The quantum of MSW generated in Indian Cities was surveyed by FICCI in year 2009 (August, 2009) to gauge the current status of solid waste management in Indian cities.Viz D (2012) Urbanization and solid waste management in India: Present practices and future challenges.For most of urban local bodies in India solid waste is a major concern that has reached alarming proportions requiring management initiatives on a war-footing.
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According to a survey Delhi generates about 7000 tonnes/day of municipal solid waste and this municipal waste is to ride about 17000-25000 tonnes/day by the year 2026.due to the rapid increase in the population and municipal solid waste the disposal of the waste has become a great head ache for the municipality in Delhi.Out of the waste gathered only 70-80% of municipal solid waste is collected while the remaining is dumped onto streets or open ditches.The major policies and legislative frameworks for the municipal solid waste management in Delhi are ..The characterisation of the waste by its type, composition and source is important this will make monitoring and management of solid waste easy.What a waste: solid management in Asia.
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State of municipal solid waste management in Delhi, the capital of India, Waste Management Volume 28, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1276-1287 .The characterisation of the waste by its type, composition and source is important this will make monitoring and management of solid waste easy.RELEVANT REGULATIONS FOR MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA .The population of Delhi is 13.9 million they produce 7000 tonnes/day of municipal solid waste at the rate of 0.500 kg/capital/day and accordingly the population as well as the MSW in increasing by 2026 the municipal solid waste generated will increase to 17,000-25,000 tonnes/day.Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000: according to this policy there is a set process for the coll...
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The excellent option for solid waste management is composting for urban solid waste in India [4].Waste collection & transportation is one of the major parts of the process of solid waste management which consists of generation, collection, transportation, treatment and final disposal [3].Disposal is a “no alternative” option because it is the last functional element in the solid waste management system and ultimate fate of all waste that are of no further value.Managing solid waste generated in the city – collection, transportation and its safe disposal is one of the most priority area of attention for improvement of the Municipal Solid Waste Management in light of the MSW Rules 2000.It is statistically proved that a major proportion...
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Chennai is also accounted for having the highest per capita waste generation in India (Sharholy, 2008).The Federal Government of United States of America defines solid waste as any discarded material that is not excluded (40 CFR 261.There has hitherto been no concrete and effective management measure taken to counteract this problem.Solid waste has become an urban issue that gives evidence to the greatly increasing economic activities in the municipalities and poses a challenge thereto.Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is a type of waste that, in particular, is not carried by water or air.
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SBA or clean India mission is a campaign in India that aims to clean up the streets, roads, and infrastructure of India’s cities, smaller towns and rural areas.Diversified characteristics and practices of the region, and the standard of living of people.Raising awareness about a city’s MSW management activities and benefits of proper MSW can increase of : .The requirement of enormous funds for programme implementation Lack of awareness regarding the significance of the water Resources.Examples of solid waste including the following materials can be discarded : .
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The efforts by a community-based organization to promote a sustainable integrated waste management in mega cities and lessons learnt from EXNORA’s Zero Waste Management Scheme in South Indian cities has also been outlined.But in practice it has been INTERPRETED in a different way, and made to mean that godliness can dispense with cleanliness.The current practices of the uncontrolled dumping of waste on the outskirts of countries have created a serious environmental and public health problem where as many issues.like this even school is referd to lord sarswathi devi so we also need to keep ouselves clean and keep school just like holy place.cleanliness is next to godliness .
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• TARA Mini Paper Recycling Plant recycles waste paper generated in schools and communities which enable us to make our own stationary.Solid waste management, plantation drives, energy conservation, paper recycling, etc., are some activities done by the schools, Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs), business and industrial associations and individual households.• Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India .The programme covers various aspects pertaining to our environment like water, air, trees and medicinal plants, waste management (composting, waste paper recycling), checking for food adulteration, bird watching, energy conservation, eco-consumerism.• CLEAN-India Mysore Chapter has networked with Mysore City Corporation for so...
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Municipal Solid Waste (Management & Handling) Rule, 2000: Processing of Municipal Solid Wastes Municipal authorities shall adopt suitable technology or combination of such technologies to make use of wastes so as to minimize burden on land fill.Solid wastes are those organic and inorganic waste materials produced by various activities of the society, which have lost their value to the first user.On one hand, the recyclable components of solid waste could be useful as secondary resource for production processes.Solid waste is a broad term, which encompasses all kinds of waste such as Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), Industrial Waste (IW), Hazardous Waste (HW), Bio-Medical Waste (BMW) and Electronic waste (E-waste) depending on their sourc...
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Vermiculture (Earthworm farming) is another technique for obtaining compost from solid decomposable waste... (Solid waste price and transportation charges, Flocculation and gravity separation) .The separated solid biodegradable waste is collected and it is dumped in three 8 ft (l) x 8 ft (b) x 10 ft (h) pits for decomposition process.India has an inefficient system to collect and process solid waste.Many developing countries are struggling with inefficient solid municipal waste management systems due to lack of good knowledge about processing the solid waste.
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Five hundred Filipinos will be surveyed regarding the waste management processes that they involved themselves into.Despite the fact that waste handling and transport varies from region-to-region, country-to-country, there are waste management concepts that are universally accepted and implemented.Waste management is the polite term for garbage management, a system of handling the amount of garbage generated by human.Consolidating the matter directed on the implementation of a solid waste management program in every region in every country.These waste materials are solid, liquid, gaseous and even radioactive substances.
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Secondary recycling involves processing of waste/scrap plastics into materials that have characteristics different from those of original plastics product.Plastics recycling technologies have been historically divided into four general types -primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary.Primary recycling involves processing of a waste/scrap into a product with characteristics similar to those of original product.Plastics Waste: Environmental Issues and Challenges The quantum of solid waste is ever increasing due to increase in population, developmental activities, changes in life style, and socio-economic conditions, Plastics waste is a significant portion of the total municipal solid waste (MSW).Plastic Waste Management 1.
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The liabilities that the legislation is holding Coca-Cola is $47 million for damages caused by the operation of the plant (“Coca-Cola Plant Shut Down In India “, 2014).According to “ISO14001:2004 EMS Requirements” (2004), “ISO 14001:2004 is applicable to any organization that wishes to implement, maintain and improve an environmental management system; assure itself of its conformance with its stated environmental policy; demonstrate such conformance to others; seek certification/registration of its environmental management system by an external organization; make a self-determination and self-declaration of conformance with this international standard.” .Coca-Cola Forced To Shut Bottling Plant in India.Coca-Cola forced to close India ...
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Lack of institutional arrangement, insufficient funds absence of standards and by-laws, insufficient information on waste composition and quantity, inflexible work schedule and inappropriate technology transfer are the common constraints faced by environmental agencies in solid waste management.75-95% of the revenue of solid waste is spent on collection and disposal and only 40-70% is collected from the urban areas.Municipal Solid waste , Solid waste Management .There is no formal practice in place for source separation at present although Federal Ministry of Environment (2000) specified in the Blue print for municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in Nigeria that separation at source is one of the viable alternatives/complement to an in...
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Any development in these e waste sectors will have to be built on the existing set-up as the waste collection and pre-processing can be handled efficiently by the informal sector, at the same time offer numerous job opportunities.Proper waste management protocols should also be prescribed to the consumer.At this time informal sector collect the all electronic waste around the country and recycle them, Government has taken the following steps to improve the awareness about recycling of E-waste and to establish a sound E-waste management with healthy environment.Diversion from landfill has been driver for legislation in many states requiring collecting and processing of E-waste separately from the solid waste stream.A large number of new b...
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The above figure: 5 show the technical solution and non-technical solution to manage textile waste which is also discussed in Figure: 1 by Domina and Kathy to integrate the textile waste among all the categories including post-producer waste, pre-consumer waste and post-consumer waste.Firstly, it may enter the solid waste stream and end in landfills or waste incinerators.Therefore, S Michael, D Mathew, M Scott, G Cathleen, E Matt, G Beth, 1997 of the “Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance(DPPEA)” by the department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources conducted a study on “Analysis of the Full Costs of Solid Waste Management for North Carolina local governments.” The study found that the cost-effectiveness ...
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This study goes through most of the available techniques related to disposal of waste, as well as the environmental and health impacts created by them and different ways of treating municipal solid waste: Recycling, composting, incineration and land filling.Domestic hazardous waste & toxic waste .. Biodegradable waste: is a type of waste, typically originating from plant or animal sources, which may be degraded by other living organisms.Composite wastes: Composite waste material is a product of material waste such as vegetable waste, plant waste, dungs, food product, waste clothing, Tetra Packs, waste plastics such as toys... Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is defined as waste collected by a municipality.These public health, environmen...
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MSW Collection Chennai Municipality (Figure 11A) and Neel Metal Fanalca (Figure 11B) employ sanitary workers or sweepers who are either permanent staff or daily-paid temporary workers (Figure 10) who sweep and remove solid waste, like paper, plastics, organic debris, construction wastes etc every day.Sanitary workers from Corporation of Chennai or private organizations engage in door-to-door domestic collection (Figure 12) of segregated and/or non-segregated solid wastes (both biodegradable/non-biodegradable and recyclable/non-recyclable) from residents, streets, roadsides and arterial roads in rotomould bins (Figure 13) and tricycles (Figure 12).The efficiency of collection of solid waste can be equated to the amount of garbage collecte...
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In 2003*, we have generated 27,397 tons of garbage daily, a step backwards compared to the 19,700 tons of garbage we have generated daily in 2000 (*based on the study conducted by the NSWMC-Secretariat and the Metro Manila Solid Waste Management Project of the Asian Development Bank in 2003).It was found that a large amount of Philippine solid wastes composition are mostly biodegradable (Navarro,R.,2003).The importance and the related benefits of properly managing organic waste are still underestimated in many Philippine municipalities.That is why the Philippines is still looming with garbage management problemsdespite the passage of Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.These problemsare brought to light during ...
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Some of the principles of municipal solid waste management involve the application of the principle of sustainable development and principle of Integrated Solid Waste Management ISWM).The magnitude of the health problems due to solid waste in case of developing countries are particularly alarming where the proper collection and disposal of solid waste is impeded by paucity of funds and technological capacity.In fact, the whole system of effective solid waste management must ensure absolute protection of waste management workers and safety of the entire public health through diseases prevention as well as it must be sustainable in both environmentally and economically manners.Waste management planning should be done in such a manner that,...
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Waste management options-Consumers need to know that the disposal available at HHW collections represents least desirable alternative for waste management, while prevention represents the most favorable option.Thus both physical and chemical characteristics of the solid waste determine the selection of the final method of waste disposal.The environmental degradation caused by inadequate disposal of waste can be expressed by the contamination of surface and ground water through leachate, soil contamination through direct waste contact or leachate, air pollution by burning of wastes, spreading of diseases by different vectors like birds, insects and rodents, or uncontrolled release of methane by anaerobic decomposition of waste.Solid waste...
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Solid waste (Non hazard, House hold waste) .Considering the dumping and disposal of the domestic solid waste are very difficult to monitor and guide to the proper disposal system rather than the bulk waste generated by commercial and government organizations.Composition of solid waste As shown in the figure below, the composition of municipal solid waste in Sri Lanka is mainly biodegradable, in that it decomposes naturally.Drastic attitude change of general public on significance of the waste disposal in Colombo area will address the systematic, suitable and lasting domestic solid waste disposal management system to the city.This paper discuses the impact of the improper handling of the domestic waste in Colombo city and how to change th...
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Industrial waste which the wastes are timber, demolition and construction waste, treatment plant waste, hazardous waste.It can be said that Malaysia’s construction waste is one of the largest waste rate and yet despite a number of government policy initiatives to address this problem, suitable resource and waste management on site remains a low priority for the majority of the contractors (Begum, 2009).The “National Strategic Plan for Solid Waste Management” was form in 2005 which mainly focus on solid waste management in peninsular Malaysia and the duration is until 2020 providing the foundation for the subsequent years (United Nations Development Programme, 2008).For our country Malaysia, it is quite surprise to say that the Government...
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According to the source of generation, the solid waste can classified as: .Such waste can be soiled waste, anatomical waste, sharps, chemical waste, discarded medicines, etc.The plant gets input (biodegradable waste) to its full capacity occasionally during the college fests when the amount of waste generated is 3-4 times the waste generated during the normal college days.Municipal waste- The municipal waste includes the household waste, construction debris and waste from the streets.The biodegradable waste like food waste is sent to the biogas plant and the other waste which cannot be treated by the campus is sent with the PMC waste disposal truck which takes a round in Viman Nagar daily.
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This provided for the improvements and upgrades of basic environmental services such as water supply, solid waste management and transport (Pucci, 2006).They made a conscious management strategy to create the familiarization among people regarding the impacts of human actions to the ecosystem.Fortunately, the National Transportation Planning and Research Centre, a body under the autonomous body of India recognized roads stretching to up to 441 kilometers that needed vital and urgent improvements such as widening, strengthening, resurfacing and other geometric improvements.The government of India needs to impose more laws and actions concerning the ecotourism in Kerala so as not to put into waste the beauty that the place has been equippe...
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* 2009 was a year of immense joy & pride for PepsiCo India.PepsiCo Solid Waste Management Programme * PepsiCo India continues to strengthen its Solid Waste Management initiatives in partnership with Exnora, an environmental NGO.* In order to provide its farmers “The best quality potato seeds”, PepsiCo collaborated with the Thapar Institute of Technology to develop quality potato mini-tubers.* PepsiCo has also made an investment in a world class potato mini-tuber facility at Zahura in Punjab which helps getting robust and disease-free seeds to its contract farmers.One of the largest multinational investors in the country, PepsiCo has established a business which aims to serve the long term dynamic needs of consumers in India.
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As of December 2010, the installed capacity of wind power in India was 13,065.37 MW, mainly spread across Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and West Bengal.India is densely populated and has high solar insolation, an ideal combination for using solar power in India.Development of wind power in India began in the 1990s and has increased in recent years.Waste generation in India is expected to increase rapidly in the future.Every year, about 55 million tonnes of municipal solid waste and 38 billion litres of sewage are generated in the urban areas of India.
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Solid waste (disposable items like tubes, catheters etc.This process has been recommended for human anatomical waste, animal waste, discarded medicines.Though he stated that the medical centre of SVC was not performing advanced medical treatments and thus the composition of their centre’s biomedical waste would differ a lot from that of a hospital, still he had the knowledge of the waste generated in hospitals and how is it managed.It is a process in which the waste material is brought in contact with steam for a time period which is sufficient to disinfect the waste material.Since the mismanagement of biomedical waste can be dangerous to the public, the government (Ministry of Environment and Forests) has provided uniform guidelines and...
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