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Rapid urbanization and rising consumption of goods make waste management in India a massive challenge. Urban India produces 62 million metric tonnes (MMT) of municipal solid waste every year, 31 MMT of which is dumped in landfills and dumpsites. Figures for recycling are abysmal; for instance, only 1.5 percent of e-waste is recycled. Mixed-waste collection patterns add to the challenge of plastic-waste management. The need of the hour is to shift the focus of waste management towards source segregation, recycle and reuse.

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has been working on policy and implementation with regard to waste management at the national and global levels. In 2016, it published Not in My Backyard, a seminal report on the existing status of waste management in the country

The Anil Agarwal Environment Training Institute (AAETI), a CSE initiative, recognizes the need to segregate, recycle and reuse, and offers an advanced five-day training programme on ‘Integrated Waste Management’. The objective of the programme is to provide a better understanding of the key aspects of management of solid, plastic, biomedical, construction and demolition (C&D), and e-waste; technologies involved in their treatment; legislative framework; and stakeholders involved.

COURSE DURATION: November 20 to 24, 2018

COURSE VENUE Anil Agarwal Environment Training Institute (a Centre for Science and Environment initiative), Nimli (near Alwar), Tijara, Rajasthan

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

• Status of waste management in India
• Major provisions of the new Waste Management Rules, 2016 and the status of their implementation
• Roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders
• Inventorisation and extended producer responsibility
• Decentralised waste management
• Using information, education and communication for behaviour change
• Site visits to learn about best practices 

WHO CAN APPLY
Waste management practitioners, officials from central and state urban departments and municipalities, urban and town planners, village panchayat officials and members, academicians, students, and NGO representatives.

COURSE FEES: 25,500/- INR (Includes Tuition fee, Course material, Boarding and lodging, Transport from New Delhi to AAETI and back) (scholarships available for students)

FACULTY: Experts from MoEF&CC, CPCB, Technical experts, CSE and other Civil society institutions

LAST DATE FOR APPLYING: November 10, 2018

FOR DETAILS CONTACT: 

Dinesh Raj Bandela
Deputy Programme Manager
Environmental Governance 
Centre for Science and Environment
Mobile: +91 8800721020
Email: dinesh.bandela@cseindia.org

With rapid urbanisation and rising incomes, India is facing a massive waste management challenge. Urban population of India generates 62 million tonnes of municipal solid waste per annum. Only 43 million tonnes (MT) of the waste is collected, 11.9 MT is treated and 31 MT is dumped in landfill sites. India generates about 1.7 million tonnes of electronic waste and only 1.5% of the total e-waste generated is recycled. Biomedical waste generation is about 484 tonnes per day. It is the need of the hour that focus of waste management shifts to processing and resource recovery.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) recognises this need and is organizing an advanced five-day training programme on “Integrated Waste Management”. The objective of the programme is to get a better understanding of main features of the management of Solid, Plastic, Bio-medical, E-waste and C&D waste, the technologies involved in their treatment, the key legislative frameworks and the stakeholders involved. Some of the key takeaways for participants from this training shall be

1. Existing status of waste management in India

2. Major provisions of the new Waste Management Rules, 2016 and their status of implementation

3. Role and responsibility of different stakeholders

4. Inventorisation and Extended Producer Responsibility.

5. Decentralised waste management

6. Use of IEC for behaviour change

7. Use of IEC for behaviour change

8. Site visits to learn about best practices

TRAINING METHODOLOGY: Lectures, case studies, class exercises, discussion and field visits

SCHEDULE 

Course Duration: January 8-12, 2018

Time: 10 AM - 5:30 PM 

Course fee: Rs.15,000 for urban developers, government officials and consultants, Rs.10,000 for academicians, NGOs and researchers, Rs.7,500 for students Note: Accommodation can be arranged nearby the training centre, would incur extra charges

Last Date for Applying: November 30, 2017

OPEN FOR: Waste management practitioners, officials from central and state urban departments, municipalities, urban & town planners, village panchayats, academicians, students, NGOs

A certificate of participation will be awarded at the end of the programme

Note: Accommodation can be arranged nearby the training centre, would incur extra charges

Weblink: http://www.cseindia.org/content/training-programme-integrated-waste-management

For details contact:

Neha Walani, Programme Officer, 
Environmental Governance Unit (Waste Management), 
Centre for Science and Environment, 
41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi-110062
Ph: 91-11-2995 5124 / 6110 (Ext. 204); Fax: 91-11-2995 5879
Mobile: +91 9833216072, 
Email: neha.walani@cseindia.org,

NOT IN MY BACKYARD: Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities

Book Release and workshop: Patna, Bihar
 

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi is conducting a half day programme in Patna, Bihar on Solid Waste Management on 14th December, 2016 to release its report ‘Not in My Backyard: Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities’ and discuss the agenda for a clean Bihar.

We have been to some of the cleanest cities across the country and have rated them. The system for rating cities was to determine who is the cleanest of them all in terms of solid waste management. It is clear that cities that are segregating their waste have been able to effectively process and treat it and have achieved the status of zero landfill cities. While, some cities are doing - part segregation and part treatment. And then, there are a few cities, that are visibly clean but dumping their waste. We have incorporated all our findings in our book: ‘Not in My Backyard’.

The objective of this programme is to discuss the roadmap for a Swachh Bihar. It is clear that waste management needs to be reinvented in our cities. In light of the new Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016, segregation at source is imperative and the shift needs to be towards treatment and processsing. The meeting shall discuss the existing situation of state in terms of solid waste management, the new rules and some of the best practices across the country on solid waste management.

The programme is ideal for regulators, practitioners, consultants, academicians and NGOs working in solid waste management.

Date: December 14, 2016 
Timing: 9.30 AM-2.30 PM 
Venue: Auditorium, AN Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna, Bihar

Limited seats, for registration kindly write to Dr.Sonia Henam at sonia.henam@cseindia.org, +91-9871960493

What direction should waste management take in North East India? What does the future hold in store? Are landfills the answer? Is Waste-to-energy technology still a good bet? Why segregation is the key? These are some of the questions that come to our minds when thinking about the fragile ecosystem of North East India.

Of the 14 cities, that CSE rated, we have rated Aizawl, Agartala and Gangtok from North-East. The system for rating cities was to determine who is the cleanest of them all in terms of solid waste management. It is clear that cities that are segregating their waste have been able to effectively process and treat it and have achieved the status of zero landfill cities. While, some cities are doing - part segregation and part treatment. And then, there are a few cities, that are visibly clean but dumping their waste.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi is releasing its book ‘Not in My Backyard: Status of Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities’ in Guwahati, Assam. The book release shall be followed by a discussion with municipal commissioners, regulators, urban planners, consultants and NGOs on the need to have zero landfill cities across North East India.

DATE: August 10, 2016

TIMING: 5 PM to 8 PM (Kindly join us for dinner after the programme) 

VENUE: Auditorium, NEDFi Convention Centre, Guwahati, Assam

Limited seats, for registration kindly write to Swati Singh Sambyal,Programme Officer, EG- (MSW) at swati@cseindia.org, +91-9711605091,9910496283

The picture is of a floating barrier made to arrest floating trash or garbage, designed by Bengaluru based AlphaMERS (patent applied).  This does not treat chemical or dissolved pollutants. This design, originally made with River Ganga in mind, will now be applied to lakes and water streams with flowing waters. Long sections of such barriers are connected end to end, running from the riverbank or shore, laid diagonally across the flowing waters, and held in place by anchors. The water flows past, while trash is arrested by the barrier. Smaller particles are allowed to flow past to keep the resistance to water flow reasonably low.  This trash slowly slides to the shore or bank from where municipal channels takeover and can easily recover /dispose. The water body now starts  to look cleaner.