Role Of Ulbs & Public In Solid Waste Management

Mrs Almitra H Patel, Member

Supreme Court Committee for Solid Waste Management

almitrapatel@rediffmail.com

SWM : WHOSE JOB ?

ULB?

SWM is an obligatory

duty for Urban Local

Bodies.

It is easier to fulfil this

with cooperation

from the public

PUBLIC?

SWM is NOT an NGO’s job.

Expecting the public or a

private agency to do the

ULB’s job, even on paymt,

is not the answer.

MAKE CITIZENS YOUR

PARTNERS in SWM

SEGREGATION OF WASTE-1

ULBs mustNEVER MIX inert waste(road dust, drain silt, debris) with Garbage(whether segregated or not).

IDENTIFY SPACES foruseful placement of Inerts.This reduces waste by 40% !

Citizens will not addinerts to a door-to-door collection route.Calcutta charges Rs 10per handcart for debrisclearance from privatesites.Run a Hot-line for Rubble Exchange

SEGREGATION OF WASTE-2

Collect Wet and Dry

waste separately :

Preferably at different

times or weekly or in

different ways.

Encourage Rag-pickers to work alongside Safai Karmacharis.

Citizens cooperate 60%

easily, but lose heart when

they see both wastes

dumped into same lorry

at their doorstep, or unloaded

at same disposal point.

Encourage waste-buyers

by lifting their rejects weekly

DRY WASTE MANAGEMENTSPACES

Plan separate

destinations for Wet

and Dry waste.

Provide Sorting

Stations in ULB spaces.

Provide recycling

eqpt at disposal site.

POLICIES for DRY-WASTE USE

Shredded plastic film

added 8% in bitumen makes

wonderful asphalt roads.

PWD SPECIFICATIONS

MUST BE AMENDED

to allow for such use.

ULB Schools can help.

Weekly School Collection

of carrybags, bread

wrappers, milk pouches

etc has reduced plastic

menace in Kodagu Dist.

and in Mussoorie.

NGOs can help organise it

3 WAYS TO IMPROVE WASTE COLLECTION & TRANSPORT:Nasik, Punjab, Ranchi models

Nasik’s “naka” system iscost-effective: trucks haltbriefly at road junctions; NO PRIMARY Collection.

City is free of dustbins onroads. Stray animals then are fewer too.

Citizens bring their homewaste-bins directly to thetruck and empty themdirectly into it.

Ragpickers in truck collectdry waste for recycling, help reduce waste + make itmore suitable for composting

PUNJAB pays communities to manage their own wastes

Cities pay Rs 1100 per200 households fordoor-to-door collection.

City provides trucks forsecondary transport fromcollection points.

Park mgt costs are shared, also in Vizag.

Residents contribute foradditional costs.Permission for MobileAds on hand-carts ortricycles encouragessponsors to pay for these.

Residents manage Parks from corpus income.

Ranchi allows an NGO to manage a Ward: 5 Wards so far.

RMC provided vehiclesfor Mass Cleanup Drivebefore starting program.

RMC SKs work happilyfor door-to-door as perNGO’s planning.

RMC tractor clears waste.Needs a good strong NGO.

NBJK provided 200 man-days

to remove 200 t backlog waste

in 10 days. Organised Ward into

ad-hoc Pocket Devlopment

Committees in 2 months for

door-to-door on hh contrib’n.

Waste sanitising to start soon at collection points, and later decentralised composting.

MERA AANGAN SAAF :My Clean Frontage

Towns must pass Rules/

Resolutions requiring

ground-floor occupiers

to keep their frontages

clean upto road centre,

esp for commercial

areas, incl drain, pave-

ment, road shoulder.

Citizens cooperate AFTER

Mass Cleanup Drive, with

NGO or Trade Association

support and monitoring.

This helps control hawker-

litter, flooding and footpath

encroachments.

CONCENTRATE ON THE DIRTIEST AREAS FIRST !

THREE SUCCESSFUL

MODELS for SLUMS:

Truck at entrance,

Take-away bins

Dhaka composting

All require close ULB

interaction with local

leaders or councillors.

Offer to start wherever

full support is promised.

Whistle-system is easiest

TAKE-AWAY BINS, MUMBAI

Commitment at top reqd:

Appoint OSD Slum

Adoption for regular,

punctual pickup & rapid

response to grievances.

Delegate fiscal powers.

Start with Mass Cleanup.

Local unemployed youth

clean drains 7-8am, then

Place buckets in slum from

8-10 am for residents’ use.

10-11am Empty buckets

into lorry, stack all bins.

Re 1 per capita per month or max Rs 5/family p.m.

DHAKA NGO buys back compost

Perforated drum given to 5-6 families to share.

Only 1-2” of food wastes to be added in a layer over starter compost at bottom of barrel.

NGO buys compost at Rs 2/kg if quality OK.

Very popular idea in slums.

Many demand lockable lids

to keep out misuse by

others.

Some offer to buy drums on

instalments, by payment in

kind through compost made

CIVIC WARDENS AID A CITY

Bangalore APPOINTSShuchi Mitras to helpmonitor performance.

Payment for clearanceshould require local OK

ENFORCE built-incontractual penalties.

Citizens cooperate wherecities are serious aboutSWM and enforcement.

Hyderabad model workswell.

START WARD-WISE HAZ-WASTE PICK-UP SCHEMES

Street-light Dept to keep

tube-lights and bulbs out

of city waste.

Require take-back

policies for oil & aerosol

cans, sachets, mini-packs,

electronic hardware / parts.

See www.rbrc.com on

how to organise collection:

First-Tuesday pickups of

button cells, insulin

needles, broken glass,

thru NGOs,trade and

cultural associations.

MINIMISE AND UTILISEEncourage food banks:

Animal-feed exchange,

Decentralised composting,

by buying local composts

for horticulture dept use,

and avoid cowdung use

to discourage city stables.

Provide night-shelter or poor-feeding spaces.

Send veg-market waste to go-shalas promptly, hotel waste to piggeries.

Make unused park spaces available to interested citizens for composting.

Share transport savings with those who do this.

SANITISE SOLID WASTES

Pesticides are banned on

waste and dustbins !

Use composting

biocultures at all

waste-collection points:

They control odour and hence flies also.

Citizens will cooperate

in better waste

management when their

environment improves

MINIMISE SEPTIC-TANK SLUDGESSANITISE LIQUID WASTE TOOEncourage septic-tanktreatments for sludgereduction in-situ.

Treat septic tanks, sumpsand drains for mosquitocontrol with public help,avoiding DDT andPesticides.

Make septic-tank inoculants

available to public at Ward

Offices.

Also bio-larvicides like Bti

and lebestes fish as at

Nagpur, or vent-pipe Net

covers as in Pune.

STABILISE ALL WASTES

Unload waste in wind -

rows at disposal sites.

Inoculate with cow-dung

water 5% or biocultures.

Minimise inerts and

plastics to auction waste.

Promote Urban Agricult

on vacant sites, or tax rebates for fencing.

Invite and accept public

suggestions for improve-

ment and for eco-

Friendly land use and

SWM Policies.

Make the public your

PARTNER for a Clean

City.