Waste Management A New Paradigm

The strategy
To reassign waste management

From Govt... Corp... Municipalities

To Waste Producers
If not entirely, yet significantly!

What is Waste?
not needed of no use of no value

Right?

Go into nature and look!

Everything in nature is either reused or recycled!! Theres nothing called

waste in nature!!!

We are not apart from nature!

We must live by natures rules or well have to pay the price were already paying that!

So, we really have little choice

Each of us must answer this question

How do I deal with this so called WASTE in a way to make it useful to humans, animals or plants, or even to me, perhaps on a later date?

Dont simply throw out Waste But throw out the Use and Throw Culture

New Paradigm Process: 9Account for waste 9Deal with waste 9Mitigate environmental impact of waste

That can work only if

9There are new laws or drastic changes to existing laws 9There are stringent inspection standards and monitoring mechanisms 9There are strict enforcement systems and exemplary penal action for non-compliance

Accounting for waste

Semi-solid Brine Sludge (Mercury-rich) Gaseous waste (Cl+Hg Vapour)

When there is no waste accounting

3000 mm Rainfall

Liquid waste

Sea

Factory

Sea

Accounting for waste

INPUT
RAW MATERIAL & ENERGY
UNCONTAINABLE WASTE

CONTAINABLE WASTE

OUTPUT
GOODS OR SERVICES

Accounting for waste

Industrial/Agricultural/Service Sectors

Input

Process

Output

Waste

Accounting for waste

Input Process Waste
Characteristics and Quantity of Waste Depends on

Output

Characteristics of Inputs Quantities Handled Handling Efficiency

Accounting for waste

Input Process Waste
Characteristics and Quantity of Waste Depends on

Output

Process Characteristics Process Efficiency Capacity Utilization

Accounting for waste

Input Process Waste
Characteristics and Quantity of Waste Depends on

Output

Characteristics of Outputs Actual Production Defects and Rejects Handling Efficiency

Accounting for waste

Waste Containable Uncontainable

Benign Toxic Pathogenic Environmentally Unsafe

Accounting for waste

Waste Containable Uncontainable

Benign Toxic Pathogenic Environmentally Unsafe

Accounting for waste

Waste Containable Biological Uncontainable Non-Biological

Accounting for waste

Waste Containable Biological Degrading Rapid Slow Uncontainable Non-Biological Multiplying Neutralization EIA/Storage

Accelerate-able

Accounting for waste

Waste Containable Biological Recyclable Raw Material In Situ Recycling Natural Storage Secure Storage Uncontainable Non-Biological Non-recyclable

Accounting for waste Quantifying the Waste Its directly proportional to

production

Waste Auditing

Accounting for waste It must be legally binding on all institutions to account for the waste they generate They must annually prepare a waste audit report on the same lines as

Financial Auditing

Dealing with waste

Then the institutions must also declare how they have dealt with their waste

In that, they must adhere to the appropriate guidelines stipulated for each item of the waste or pay up stiff fines To mitigate environmental effects due to improper dealing with waste.

Dealing with waste Heres the principle

Waste Producer must recycle the waste or ensure waste reaches the recycler

Dealing with waste

What about the households Same principle holds, but with some infrastructure/organisational support

Dealing with waste

Dealing with waste

NO HURRY! SEGREGATE ACCUMULATE SEND

NON-BIODEGRADABLE (TO WASTE DEALER/RECYCLING) SOLID WASTE BIODEGRADABLE (TO COMPOST/GASIFIER) WASTE WATER LINE (TO TREATMENT PLANT) SEWERAGE LINE (TO GASIFIER)

Mitigating environmental impact of waste

Mitigating environmental impact of waste Sometimes mitigation may not be possible So, just stop using items that are environmentally unsafe

Mitigating environmental impact of waste

Example: Ending use of CFC a decade later The hole in Ozone Layer has begun closing!

Its our duty to clear up the waste we generate No more waste-dumps as legacy for future generations

We must clean up and now!

Where do we begin? By taking a serious look at our consumption

Consumption & waste generation go hand in hand!

Unfortunately modern economies thrive on consumption Advertisements drive consumption luring us into unwarranted consumption turning even undesirable wants into inescapable needs

Most of us behave like

Pavlovs Dogs
does that ring a bell?

Consume by all means

but modestly as needed

and pay for that fully too

which shall include cost of managing any waste so generated!

Drive your cars by all means

But pay up for creating/sustaining carbon sinks

that can soak up CO2 your car produces as you drive!

Of course, it wont be cheap But then, we can ill-afford to live cheaply or free now and make the coming generations pay for it! Thats neither morally nor ethically correct!!!

Once more the key question How do I deal with this so called WASTE in a way to make it useful to others humans, animals or plants, or even to me, perhaps on a later date?
Thats the key to waste management!

Please share your views with me jjputhur@yahoo.com