Need for Waste Management: ICSE School Project

Municipal Corporation now expect bigger housing societies and commercial complexes to manage their waste themselves, which is making housing societies take the necessary steps.

Societies have started installing waste management setup in their own premises. It involves three-way segregation of waste — organic, dry and reject garbage — at individual level. Then, recycled dry waste through local NGOs and wet waste through composting. Also, most of the societies are using the manure generated from organic waste at their own gardens.

Several NGOs have also started making housing societies aware of the benefits of treating waste.

Each community has at least a few residents who want to do the right thing for their society and devote their time and energy to a good cause, they bring about a positive change in the neighbourhood. All they are looking for is some hand-holding, guidance and knowledge related to waste management. Such residents and the efforts of such NGOs serve as a catalyst to make communities waste free.

‘It shouldn’t be only societies’ responsibility – the authority should also make people aware about waste-disposal systems.

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BMC to take action against housing societies that do not segregate waste. Read more here.

Waste Processing Centres

Civic bodies are setting up waste processing centres to segregate and recycle dry waste.

These material recovery centres will collect, segregate and recycle the city’s plastic and dry waste.

In most cities, NGOs collect the city’s dry waste which is then taken to segregation centres where the waste is sorted. Civic officials from the Solid Waste Management department however are of the opinion that the NGO workers are not able to collect all the dry waste generated by the city.

Instead of selling different types of plastic and dry waste to individual vendors, the BMC hopes that bringing in contractors will help process dry waste on a large scale. “It’ll be a commercial model and an assembly plant will be created where the dry waste will be sorted and baled. The contractors that have shown an interest in the project have connections with other companies that manufacture cement and dry waste can be used as fuel,” said an official.

NGOs Working for Waste Management in Mumbai

Urjaa Foundation
My Plastic Waste is My Responsibility Campaign. Till now tons of Plastic Waste has been recycled in an eco-friendly way. Our Mission is to create awareness about the hazards of Plastic through awareness programs and by appealing to STOP using of Plastic bags. Despite the ban on Plastic bags below 50 microns it is observed that a large number of plastic bags being still used by our Citizens, Vegetable vendors , fruits vendors, flower vendors.

As responsible Citizens , we should refuse taking bags from these Vendors. We must carry small paper bags , cloth bags along with big cloth bags while going to the market to segregate vegetables etc. This plastic is then converted into polyfuel in an eco-friendly manner.
Website – urjaafoundation.org

Reduce – Reuse – Recycle – Refuse Plastic.
Taking a step ahead let’s move to Zero Waste Management by putting all our efforts.

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