{"id":154025,"date":"2021-12-16T20:56:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=154025"},"modified":"2021-12-16T20:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:26:55","slug":"zero-the-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zero-the-way-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cZero the way to go\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Although India\u2019s waste management policy has evolved to suit the changing needs but there are still some gaps.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Waste must become a resource that can be reworked, reused and upcycled. This will\u00a0minimise\u00a0the use of materials in our world and mitigate environmental damage.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the relation b\/w\u00a0the\u00a0nature of waste with a country\u2019s\u00a0development status?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nature of waste changes as societies get richer and urbanize<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Firstly<\/span><\/i><\/b>,\u00a0instead\u00a0of biodegradable (wet) waste, households generate more plastic, paper, metal and other non-biodegradable (dry) waste.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Secondly<\/span><\/i><\/b>,\u00a0the quantity of waste generated on per capita basis also increases.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How waste management policy has evolved<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Waste management in the 2000s revolved around collecting waste and dumping it outside the cities in landfills.\u00a0\u00a0This led to heaps of waste in the outskirts of every major\/minor city of the country.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Current policy initiatives\u00a0like SBM 2.0\u00a0focus on source segregation, processing of and on its\u00a0minimization.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Only inert waste which\u00a0is\u00a0not suitable for either dry or wet waste treatment, can be sent to landfill sites. And this should not be more than 20%\u00a0of the total waste.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Inert waste is\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span>waste\u00a0<\/span>which is neither chemically nor biologically reactive and will not decompose or only very slowly.\u00a0<\/span>Example<\/span><\/b>: Sand and concrete.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What should be the focus of future initiatives?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1)\u00a0Focus on segregation<\/span><\/b>– Segregation is very essential\u00a0to ensure that\u00a0<\/span>waste sent for incineration and energy generation is of high quality. It also results in<\/span>\u00a0optimal working of waste to energy\u00a0(WtE)\u00a0plants.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2)\u00a0Reclaiming\u00a0landfill sites\u00a0<\/span><\/b>-This land can be greened and put to suitable use, which will also help avert environmental disasters.\u00a0<\/span>Cities must also stop sending new waste to these landfills, otherwise they will get filled up again even while being remediated.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3)\u00a0Detailed strategies to reuse the material which will be\u00a0biomined\u00a0from these sites.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Biomining<\/span><\/b>\u00a0is the technique of extracting metals from ores and other solid materials typically using prokaryotes, fungi or plants.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4<\/span>)Cities must also stop sending new waste to these landfills so that they are not filled while process for their transformation is going on.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

5)India\u2019s\u00a0solid\u00a0waste management strategy is\u00a0focusing\u00a0on\u00a0material recovery and\u00a0reuse.\u00a0 This\u00a0<\/span>practice of circular economy\u00a0<\/span><\/b>can bring huge dividends for waste management in the country.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Circular economy<\/span><\/b>\u00a0is “a model of production and consumption, which involves reusing, repairing, and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible”.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

6)Informal processing of waste<\/span><\/b>– Majority of waste processing happens through informal channels such as ragpickers. This should be\u00a0formalised.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

7)\u00a0Plastic waste<\/span><\/b>\u00a0specially packaging waste has grown exponentially. This needs to be properly phased out. Although government has decided to phase put some of single use plastic, but this is not enough.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/span><\/b>-This post is based on the article\u00a0<\/span>\u201cZero the way to go\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/b>published in\u00a0Down to earth\u00a0on<\/span>\u00a015th\u00a0Dec 2021<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News:\u00a0Although India\u2019s waste management policy has evolved to suit the changing needs but there are still some gaps.\u00a0\u00a0 Waste must become a resource that can be reworked, reused and upcycled. This will\u00a0minimise\u00a0the use of materials in our world and mitigate environmental damage.\u00a0 What is the relation b\/w\u00a0the\u00a0nature of waste with a country\u2019s\u00a0development status?\u00a0 Nature of… Continue reading \u201cZero the way to go\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10504,10514,216],"class_list":["post-154025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704789816},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}