Together We Can Make It Happen!

“Reduce The Risk To Public Health Through Better Management of the Wastes We Generate”

Recover Resources for Reuse & Recycling, Reduce Landfill!

Most wastes we generate has a second life or many lives from reuse and recycling such as from conversion into manure, fuel, raw material and so on.

For resource recovery to be effective both in terms of cost of recovery and quality of recovered resources, wastes have to be segregated, separated or sorted (SSS) at source and such segregated wastes streamlined to resource recovery centers with minimal mix ups for optimizing efforts, costs and benefits.

Resource recovery from single stream mixed wastes is expensive, inefficient and leads to realization of low volumes and poor quality of recovered resources.

Segregate Wastes to enable Easier, Cleaner, Safer and Optimal Resource Recovery

Constraints on resource recovery from single stream mixed wastes drives a good part of the wastes generated to landfills, causing them to fill up quickly and creating pressures to create more landfills. Finding new sites to create landfills near the city is not an easy task . Citizens across the world have realized this and segregate wastes at source to facilitate recovery of resources and reduction of landfill.

Segregation of Wastes

Dry – WetBiodegradable – Non-biodegradableGarbage - RubbishCompostable – Recyclable – Trash

Wastes could be categorized in over a hundred ways, but to begin with, we need to get in place at least a two bin system for segregation such as the top three classifications given above and handover whatever that doesn’t fit in like domestic hazardous and bio-medical wastes separately to the door to door waste collector or deposit them in appropriate community bins.

Segregated Bio-degradable Wastes can be Composted and used as Organic Fertilizer, Soil Conditioner and Manure

Sorting of Dry Wastes – Paper & Plastic/Metal in Bags for Recycling

Segregation At Home

Segregated Collection at Vegetable/Fruit Market

Awareness Program on Segregation

BBMP Poster on Segregation

Poster on Color Coding of Bins for Segregation of Bio-Medical Wastes - Rajasthan

Prevent and Avoid Mix Ups

Ensure that only green wastes such as food, garden, horticultural and other biodegradable wastes are only deposited in the Wet/Biodegradable/Garbage Bin and plastic/paper disposable covers, plates and glasses aren’t deposited along with green wastes and they are placed separately in Bin for Dry/Non-biodegradable/Rubbish.

Do Not Drop these in either Dry or Wet Waste Bins

Do not put used injection needles, containers with chemical products, used diapers and sanitary products, construction debris etc., in either of the bins and pack them separately and handover to collector or deposit them only in community bins that are set up by municipality for their storage and collection.

Campaign Against Littering – Preach and Practice

Wastes should be deposited in Bins meant for their capture and not thrown just about anywhere, otherwise it will become expensive for the local government to remove and collect it. Littering should attract penalties and the person who does it shouldn’t be allowed to get away scot free.

In spite of it being law through MSW Management & Handling Rules 2000 that wastes (including leaves) shall not be burnt, it is still common to see waste heaps being set on fire emanating detestable toxic and noxious fumes. Wastes have to be segregated and resources recovered from them in a appropriate environmentally acceptable way.

Open burning is destruction of potential to recover resource from waste in an acceptable manner and pollutes the environment, particularly the air.

Put off and discourage people from setting waste heaps on fire!

Campaign against Burning of Waste in the Open

Together We Stand

We have before us the task of attempting and succeeding in modernization of waste management practices in our town or city and everyone of us should do our bit to make our town or city a model for the rest of the country to emulate.

Citizens, NGOs, the private sector and the municipal corporation must cooperate and unite to keep the town or city CLEAN & GREEN.