Effective waste management policy, facilities needed: Expert
tnn | Mar 14, 2019, 04:49 IST
Ajay Deshpande addresses the gatheringNagpur: By 2031, municipal solid waste generation in the country will increase to 165 million tonnes and by 2050, it is expected to reach 436 million tonnes, said Ajay Deshpande, adviser at Asian Development Bank.
Deshpande was speaking at a workshop on ‘Closing the loop: Municipal Solid Waste Management – Status, Challenges and the Way Forward’ organized by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri) on Wednesday. Highlighting that there was no relation between environmental impacts and policies, Deshpande said, “Collection of data and their analysis should be foundation of any environmental law. The data relating to open burning of solid waste is still missing in the country.”
Deshpande, who is also the former technical member of the National Green Tribunal, added the country needed appropriate source segregation programmes, recycling centres, composting and landfilling facilities along with effective circular economy models.
Organized by Neeri director Rakesh Kumar, the workshop aimed at brainstorming by experts, academicians, technology professionals, bureaucrats and policy makers to identify loopholes in the current policies relating to waste management. “There is a gap in implementation of solid waste management in terms of technological, economical and regulatory aspects. To solve a problem, there should be complete solution, which can be achieved through participation of all the stakeholders,” said Kumar.
P U Asnani, chairman of UMC Global, said material recovery facilities should be set up in various parts of the city to facilitate salvaging recyclables from the non-biodegradable waste. “NEERI should take lead in creating a pool of private operators and entrepreneurs under the start up and skill development schemes to support setting up waste processing, recycling and disposal facilities,” he said.
Stating that Maharashtra was the third cleanest state in the country as per Swachh Survekshan 2019, J Dandegaonkar, managing director of Swachh Maharashtra Mission said, “Star rating of garbage free city is based on scientific processing of waste.”
(Inputs by Abhiti Agarawal )
Deshpande was speaking at a workshop on ‘Closing the loop: Municipal Solid Waste Management – Status, Challenges and the Way Forward’ organized by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri) on Wednesday. Highlighting that there was no relation between environmental impacts and policies, Deshpande said, “Collection of data and their analysis should be foundation of any environmental law. The data relating to open burning of solid waste is still missing in the country.”
Deshpande, who is also the former technical member of the National Green Tribunal, added the country needed appropriate source segregation programmes, recycling centres, composting and landfilling facilities along with effective circular economy models.
Organized by Neeri director Rakesh Kumar, the workshop aimed at brainstorming by experts, academicians, technology professionals, bureaucrats and policy makers to identify loopholes in the current policies relating to waste management. “There is a gap in implementation of solid waste management in terms of technological, economical and regulatory aspects. To solve a problem, there should be complete solution, which can be achieved through participation of all the stakeholders,” said Kumar.
P U Asnani, chairman of UMC Global, said material recovery facilities should be set up in various parts of the city to facilitate salvaging recyclables from the non-biodegradable waste. “NEERI should take lead in creating a pool of private operators and entrepreneurs under the start up and skill development schemes to support setting up waste processing, recycling and disposal facilities,” he said.
Stating that Maharashtra was the third cleanest state in the country as per Swachh Survekshan 2019, J Dandegaonkar, managing director of Swachh Maharashtra Mission said, “Star rating of garbage free city is based on scientific processing of waste.”
(Inputs by Abhiti Agarawal )
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