Waste Management_mayank Jain_iim Calcutta

Waste Management • Self Managed – People might not be responsible enough • => littering

• Local collectors/rag pickers involved • => Poor performance because of no sense of ownership

Waste Classification • All waste is aggregated and dumped, so basically there is no classification as such

Waste Processing and Recycling • Most waste dumped straight away into landfills etc. • No recycling is carried out

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Collaborate with the government in managing the mess

◦ Provide waste transportation service to the government, lease vehicles etc. (X) [Not profitable to the government] ◦ Get contracts to maintain cleanliness of municipal dumps (X) [Not very profitable] ◦ Provide people to the government for municipal waste management (X) [Not very profitable] ◦ Look at earning revenue by generating energy from municipal wastes (X) [High initial investment, Municipal Wastes are not classified] ◦ Collect municipal waste from government and recycle it (X) [High initial investment in setting up recycling plant]

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Start waste management independently, giving a holistic solution, not trying to collaborate with the government

• Trained collectors dressed in uniforms to collect waste Waste Management

• (Trained local rag pickers/collectors – cheap + efficient labor) • - Gives a hygienic feel • - Collectors to ‘sell’ the idea of waste management to people • - Project the ‘green’ image, ‘We care’ image • Classify wastes as ‘Dry’ and ‘Wet’ • Dry - papers, bottles, plastics, e-wastes etc.

Waste Classification

• Wet – All other household wastes, primarily vegetables, liquid wastes • Provide kits consisting of different colored bins to users • Daily Collection • Dry wastes to be recycled

Waste Processing Recycling

• Wet wastes 1. Reduce volume by employing volume compression technologies 2. Remaining to be used to generate energy/dumped in landfills

1. Educate

Trained waste collection staff

2. Provide Dustbin Kits to classify waste to each household

Wet Reduce volume by use of volume reduction technologies

Collect Fees

Dump Tie – up with manure companies

Collect classified waste

Transportation

Transportation

Generate Energy/ Sell waste to energy generating plants

Dry

Tie – ups with recycling Agencies: 1. Plastic 2. e-wastes 3. Metallic

Associate brand with ‘green image’, and ‘We care’

Sponsor social events in locality, like festive gatherings , ramlilas, kavi sammelans

- Organize voluntary cleanliness drives (NGO tie-ups) - Street plays/Talks shows depicting benefits of maintaining cleanliness

Reward Program Fee Discounts etc. for ‘Most Responsible Households’

- Post hoardings at prominent places - Advertise in local newspapers

Fixed  Initial investment in dustbin kits  Transport system to transport wastes  Investment in waste volume reduction technology (latest ‘MicroSludge’ technology reduces volume of organic wastes by up to 40 - 60 %) Reduction in transportation to landfill cost

Investment in waste volume reduction technology

Reduction in volume of wastes

Recurring • Payment to employees (waste collectors & dry waste classifiers) • Sponsoring local events, posting hoardings, ads in local newspapers

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Fee collection from households

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Tie – ups with agencies recycling wastes ◦ Plastics recyclers ◦ e-waste recyclers ◦ Metallic waste recyclers

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Wastes to be sold off to energy generating plants/investing in energy generating plants which can yield revenue from the generated energy Other wet/organic wastes sold to manure companies

People become more aware, helps reduce burden on the government/private player

Social

Use of technology helps in reducing the quantity of waste dumped in landfills Better classification leads to better waste management Provides a source of employment to the rag pickers/ waste collectors A viable revenue model for a private enterprise

Economical

Environmental

Doing the entire waste management operations on an organized scale might just bring about a revolution like the Mumbai ‘dabbawalas’