Contemporary Issue in Management

Waste Management in India

Presented by
Nirav Mistry (18027)
 The Number Game

Types of Waste Generated

In India
Flow of
Presentation
Issues Related to Waste
Management

Methods of Waste
Management
01
INDIA’S URBAN POPULATION OF 429
MILLION CITIZENS PRODUCE A
WHOPPING 62 MILLION TONNES OF
GARBAGE EVERY YEAR. OUT OF THIS,
5.6 MILLION TONNES IS THE PLASTIC
WASTE, 0.17 MILLION TONNES IS THE
BIOMEDICAL WASTE, 7.90 MILLION
TONNES IS HAZARDOUS WASTE AND
15 LAKH TONNES IS E-WASTE.
The Number Game
02
A STAGGERING FIGURE OF FORTY-
THREE MILLION TONNES OF SOLID
WASTE IS COLLECTED ANNUALLY, OUT
OF WHICH ONLY 11.9 MILLION, THAT
IS 22-28% IS TREATED, WHILE ABOUT
31 MILLION TONNES OF WASTE IS
LEFT UNTREATED AND DUMPED AT
THE LANDFILL SITES.
Source:
NDTV- Swachh India
 How • Major metropolitan cities like Delhi,
Major Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad,
Bengaluru and Kolkata generate about
10 million tonnes of garbage every day.
Metros The problem is not the enormous
amount of waste generation, but how a
Manage huge chunk of garbage is remained
untreated every single day.
Trash
 • Has only 3 dumping grounds to handle
the 9,600 metric tonnes of waste
generated daily.
• The major landfill Deonar in this metro
is about 90-year-old and is on the
verge of collapsing.
Mumbai • The garbage heaps here is as tall as a
five- or six-storey building, standing 15
meters high.
• Another landfill at Mulund has been
functional since 1968. It’s spread
across 25 hectares and is also way past
its use-by date.
 • The capital city generates around 9,000
metric tonnes of waste every day and is
already sitting on a ticking garbage
bomb! Delhi has a total of 3 landfills, at
Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa.
• Ghazipur landfill site in east Delhi, most
New Delhi famous landfill areas. Spread across 70
acres, this landfill contains
approximately 12 million tonnes of
waste. Currently, it is as tall as 50 feet.
• The landfill overshot its limit of 15 feet
way back in 2002, but in the absence of
an alternative site, the landfill continues
to function till date.
 • India’s landfills are
bursting at the
seams and
overflowing with
items that shouldn’t
be thrown in the
trash. More than
70% of collected
urban waste is
dumped straight into
the landfills. As a
result most of them
are brimming and
are way past their
India’s Ever growing limit.

problem Landfills Source:

NDTV- Swachh India
 The
Problem • India generates around 3 Million
of truck full of garbage everyday.

Untreated
Waste
 • Maharashtra State generates
about 26820 tonnes of solid waste
per day.
Top Waste • E-waste Generation:
– Mumbai: 1,20,000 tonnes
Generating – Delhi: 98,000 Tonnes
Cities in – Bengaluru: 92,000 Tonnes
• 60 Major Cities including New
India Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai,
Ahmedabad, generate around
3500 tonnes of plastic everyday.
 • Out of the world’s 2200 waste to
Around the energy plants, European Union
has 445, China has 150 and USA
world: has 86 plants.
Where India • Despite of India’s huge
Stands population, it only has 8 waste to
energy plants.
 • Toxins pollute the soil in due course of
time.
• Generation of green house gases.
• Production of methane from food
Effect of Poor scrap and organic waste
Waste
Management • HUNGER STRIKE IN KERALA
• MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER REPLACED
IN KARNATAKA
• RABIES IN SRINAGAR
 Reasons For Poor
Waste Management

• Poor Implementation of
procedures.
• Lack of awareness amongst the
population.
• Under-utilization of the
Sewage Treatment Plants
 Methods for Waste Management
• Proper segregation of different types of waste
at their source.
• Waste to Compost (Through PPP model)
• Waste to Energy Plants
• Treating bio medical waste separately
• Utilization of the STPs to their optimum
capacity.