{"id":230564,"date":"2023-03-11T19:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T13:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=230564"},"modified":"2023-03-11T19:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T13:38:06","slug":"dump-this-practice-kochi-garbage-fire-is-a-warning-to-all-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/dump-this-practice-kochi-garbage-fire-is-a-warning-to-all-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Dump This Practice – Kochi garbage fire is a warning to all cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S<\/strong>ource<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cDump This Practice – Kochi garbage fire is a warning to all cities\u201d <\/strong>published in The Times of India <\/strong>on\u00a011th March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 3 \u2013 Environmental pollution and degradation.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About Kochi garbage fire.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Kochi became clouded in toxic fumes after the Brahmapuram dumpyard caught fire recently. The Kochi garbage fire made many people in close vicinity to shift out temporarily. The winds carried noxious dioxins and furans inside faraway homes.<\/p>\n

What is the reason behind Kochi garbage fire incident?<\/h2>\n

The waste treatment plant has been operating without a licence since 2016. This is because, they kept failing at various mandated benchmarks, from plastic waste segregation to bio-mining of legacy waste. Since it is the only dump yard in Kochi, the debris kept rising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: New e-waste rules and India\u2019s e-waste challenge \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What Kochi garbage fire incident highlights about India’s waste treatment plants?<\/h2>\n

Kochi garbage fire incident is a familiar occurrence across the country<\/strong>. Unsanitary mixed waste dumps are regularly leaking serious health hazards into the air, whether it is the Adharwadi and Deonar landfills in Maharashtra or the massive garbage mountains in Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa in Delhi.<\/p>\n

Municipal bodies have less accountability for waste treatment<\/strong>. Hence, the waste turns into totally unsustainable ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must read: <\/strong>Waste Management in India: Status, Challenges and Solutions \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

More urbanisation is generating more waste daily. Scientific management of waste<\/strong> will be the backbone of India’s cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cDump This Practice – Kochi garbage fire is a warning to all cities\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a011th March 2023. Syllabus: GS \u2013 3 \u2013 Environmental pollution and degradation. Relevance: About Kochi garbage fire. News: Kochi became clouded in toxic fumes after the Brahmapuram dumpyard… Continue reading Dump This Practice – Kochi garbage fire is a warning to all cities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"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":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-230564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230564","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\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}