Multi-dimensional nature of managing waste in Mumbai

Rishi Aggarwal Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai

International Conference on Waste to Resource

(WTR) 2013 18-19th December 2013

Started presentation by showing video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J 6vl12u5WY

and stressing how so much of avoidable waste enters the stream. Small traders like in slide three can directly receive recyclables.

What we know

• 6500 tonnes waste generated daily

• Three dumping grounds (two operational)

• Deonar and Mulund operational

• Kanjur in litigation from environmental NGOs

• Allegations of massive corruption

• Mumbai Municipal Corporation richest body in India. Budget Rs. 27,000 crores

• SWM Budget – more than Rs. 1000 crores

Statutory framework

• Environmental Protection Act, (1986)

• MSW 2000 Rules

• MCGM, SWM Bye Laws 2006

• Electronic Waste Rules

Waste management is

NOT about

PICK AND DUMP

Some salient features of waste management by BMC in past decade

• Disappointing performance in its PPP contracts – neither helps private players nor the city and wastes money and time for everybody.

• Deonar PPP cancelled within three years.

• Continuous shadow of litigation and allegations on its two major contracts of Deonar and Kanjur

What a waste management policy should take into account

MSWM

Land

Ecology

Appropriate transparent use of public

funds

Involving citizens

Business opportunities

Waste management has to realise value through material recovery

Need of the hour

• INTEGRITY of elected representatives and officials

• Appropriate use of public money

• Education and awareness among citizens

• Encourage small and big entrepreneurs

Thank you

Email: rishiagg@gmail.com