Door-to-Door%20Waste%20Management%20with%20People

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Door-to-Door Waste Management with Peoples Help

• Mrs Almitra H Patel, Member
• Supreme Court Committee for Solid Waste
  Management in Class 1 Cities in India
• almitrapatel_at_rediffmail.com

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The best way to keep streets clean is not to
dirty them at all.Start with DIRTIEST AREAS
FIRST!Focus Remove one dark spot per Ward
per week.Use media to Highlight Successes.
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So the law of the land now is daily doorstep
collection of wet wastes for composting, dry
wastes given separately
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DO NOT MIX wet kitchen waste separate, and
dry recyclables paper, plastic, cloth
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Citizens can help by keeping dry waste out of
kitchen waste
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Only kitchen wastes need daily collection, in our
climate.Dry wastes can be collected weekly, as
we save newspapers and bottles. Thin plastic can
be stored in a bag on the wall.

• Rajasthan towns can and should pass rules for
  this daily collection only of UNMIXED kitchen
  waste, flower and fruit waste and
  biodegradables.
• That is how wastes can be minimised.

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Keep SEPARATE TIMINGS for collecting wet
dry wastes

• Citizens cooperate very well if
• Timings are Punctual and Regular
• They SEE their Unmixed wet and dry being
  transported separately
• There is a Hot-line for problem-solving and
  airing grievances
• There is some Reward for Good Behaviour

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Kitchen waste is low in volume. It can be
composted at home
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Or collected door-to-door at fixed times from
each area.
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Take only the kitchen waste to a bio-bin for
local composting
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This Chembur bio-bin replaced an overflowing
dumper placer. Now residents grow a garden to
keep that same area clean.
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This bin serves 126 households and provides
additional income to 3 persons for 1 hour a day
work 1 collects, 1 cleans drains, 1 manages the
bio-bin, 1 is a mali. Compost is ready in a
month for use.
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The compost is used for street beautification,
even in very little spaceand has improved
property values.
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Mera Aangan Saaf policy keeps drains clean,
prevents flooding and saves desilting costs too.
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Decentralised composting mali costs are easily
met from savings in transport.

• We must share these savings? How?
• 1/3 to local composting community to spend at
  their discretion for street lights, potholes or
  reduce their monthly contribution costs.
• 1/3 to LSG to pay for more such bio-bins, esp. in
  unmanned areas.
• 1/3 in future to transporters who cooperate in
  unloading only wet waste in local bio-bins?

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Park and Garden wastes can be composted on-site
or used as fuel or sent to cremation grounds
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Market waste is easy to compost or
vermi-compost, as here in a Mumbai
pumping-station space.
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Dry recyclable waste can be collected weekly in
larger carts
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Moholla or City must provide space for Collecting
and Storing dry recyclable wastes
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Also space to collect truckloads of dry waste for
shipment out
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Otherwise it will encroach on roads or even
riverbeds
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MINIMISE WASTE TO LANDFILLS, which are costly to
prepare and to operate!

• City and State should have targets, like EU, for
  annual reductions of waste transported.
• Reduce present 470 grams per capita to 200, then
  100, then 50.
• Landfills cannot be eliminated but one can try
  for Zero Waste, like Suryapet in AP, which DOES
  NOT MIX MALBA WITH KOODA

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MINIMISE TRANSPORT COSTS!

• INERTS like construction waste, naali and drain
  silt, road diggings and sweepings must never be
  mixed with garbage.
• So PAY by VOLUME, NOT by WEIGHT!
• Collect INERTS IN A SEPARATE TRIP
• for useful disposal ravine-filling,
  gully-plugging, flood-control, road shoulders.

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PAYMENT BY WEIGHT COSTS CITY TAX-PAYERS TWICE
OVER!

• It encourages mixed transport which makes
  composting difficult and RDF a failure.
• Another cost for needless expensive filling of
  landfill with mixed inerts instead of using them.
• If landfill cover is needed, TRANSPORT
• STOCKPILE INERTS SEPARATELY ON
• SITE for daily cover. For final cover, mix
• compost rejects with soil to support vegetation.