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  Waste Management - A real challenge ?

In India, Even though there are lot of technical expertise, legal regulations , policies ...etc related to Waste management
But in reality . Still there is a huge gap in waste management sector .
Hope, only in few parts of India the system is good .
Even-though the waste management system seems to be   good inside the industries , factories

My day to day experience

I feel unhappy  to see the street with mixture of waste. lots of unwanted waste are dumped in unnoticed areas , rivers...etc.

To say an best example : I was riding on bicycle in the roads of Chennai.
During my journey of 5 Kms . I feel a very very bad odour in the streets . lot of rotten chicken waste was lying in the road.
 And also , I saw loads and loads of waste on  both side of roads .

 Every where  : Whether its a near an industry , road , public place .river. or water body ...etc
 Every time  :     Whether its a morning , afternoon, evening or night
 Every body  : Whether its a common layman, school students or college professionals, or educated community  .


I feel shame for  not doing anything for the same .

Hope we together we should do something to see our country " A better country with good waste management system in place "


Time for Action :

I pen down some key action plan  points which are in my mind.



1. Legal : Strict legal policy to be implemented related to waste management.
  There should  be Police force specific to environment management. (If there is any illegal dumping/ no proper segregation  it should be penalised ).

2. Accountability : Waste should be accounted generated from each home/office /other buildings..
                                         ( Attack at the source )
3. Tax :       Tax should be implemented for waste . based on generation by generators  . the fund can be utilised for waste management.

4. Waste management booth :  Recycling centres / booth to established at every reasonable radius  ( Like ATM CENTRE).
                                                                       Unemployed youth, Self-Help group, poor people can be employed in the waste management booth after prior training .

5. Environment Resource Card :   
Like Voters ID/PAN CARD/RATION CARD   . Every individual inspite of age/qualification..etc  should have an Environment card .  The card will have multiple function related to environment
The card will act like an resource card for the individual . ( They can earn credit points. When the hand-over the recyclable waste to the recycling centres/Booth .)

6. Buy - Back policy :
In my experience, I have seen many materials all simply thrown out even though it has be utilised several times.
                                    ( Each big should should establish recycling centres/collection booth to get back the packings from the consumers and used further either directly or after recycling

Tie-up should be done so that the card can be used and the amount earned from the card shall be used to deduce/pay the Electricity bill, Gas bill, train... ..etc.
 And also possibilities can be explored to use in private centres .

7. Awareness & Training :  
Regular awareness to be done for all such as public, commercial buildings, waste generators shops ...etc  in all media, all modes with the help of environment experts, students. to the public , commercial buildings, ..etc

Please share your experience/ action plan.

Let us put together and communicate in a better way to the decision making body
( Finally, I pilot study can be done the system can stabilised and implemented )

" Together We can "