{"id":216614,"date":"2022-11-30T21:09:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=216614"},"modified":"2022-11-30T21:09:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:39:26","slug":"where-does-waste-originate-and-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/where-does-waste-originate-and-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does waste originate and go?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cWhere does waste originate and go?\u201d <\/strong>published in The Hindu<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a030th<\/sup> November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>amount of waste generated and disposed in India<\/strong><\/h5>\n

News: <\/strong>The report titled \u2018EnviStats India 2022\u2019<\/strong> has been published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The report provides the data for Delhi for the year 2020-21.<\/p>\n

What are the highlights of the report for Delhi?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Waste Generated:<\/strong> According to the report, over 40 lakh tonnes of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)<\/strong> was generated in 2020-21. Out of which about 85% of MSW in Delhi was generated by households and 15% by shops and restaurants. (Chart 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Delhi generated over 13 lakh tonnes of construction and demolition waste, over 5.4 lakh tonnes of plastic waste, about 11 thousand tonnes of bio-medical waste, and 610 tonnes of e-waste along with 3,239 tonnes of hazardous waste.<\/p>\n

Waste Disposed:<\/strong> Half the municipal solid waste went to landfills and the other half was recycled and reused. About 35% of bio-medical waste was burnt while all construction and demolition waste were recycled (Table 2).<\/strong><\/p>\n

About 22% of plastic waste is converted into energy while 37% is taken to landfills. However, it is not known how e-waste was disposed of as there is no treatment and disposal facility available in Delhi for e-waste.<\/p>\n

What are the conditions of other states?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The current report highlights data for Delhi only, therefore, previous year data has been taken for other states.<\/p>\n

Waste Generated:<\/strong> 68% of the MSW generated<\/strong> is processed across India in the year 2019-20. Himachal Pradesh leads<\/strong> the list with 98% of MSW followed by Chhattisgarh at 93%. (Table 3)<\/strong><\/p>\n

An average of 2.5 tonnes of plastic was generated per 1,000 population in India in 2018-19 and 8.09 metric tonnes of the hazardous waste generated in the country per 1,000 population in 2018.<\/p>\n

Waste Treated:<\/strong> 87% of biomedical waste<\/strong> was treated across India. Seventeen States and five Union Territories <\/strong>have already achieved 100% bio-medical waste treatment whereas only 29% of biomedical waste was treated in Bihar and Chhattisgarh in 2018.<\/p>\n

Across India, only 45% of the hazardous waste<\/strong> generated was recycled\/utilised. Most States lag in this indicator. Out of 30 states less than 50% was recycled\/utilised in 13 states and less than 75% was recycled\/utilised in 22 states in the year 2018-19.<\/p>\n

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Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cWhere does waste originate and go?\u201d published in The Hindu\u00a0on\u00a030th November 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Environment Relevance: amount of waste generated and disposed in India News: The report titled \u2018EnviStats India 2022\u2019 has been published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The report provides the… Continue reading Where does waste originate and go?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"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":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-216614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216614","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}