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Written/Documented by Neeraj Rath,
03-Jan-2017
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Different types of waste
1. Wet waste
Wet waste consists of kitchen waste - including vegetable and fruit peels and pieces, tea
leaves, coffee grounds, eggshells, bones and entrails, fish scales, as well as cooked food
(both veg and non-veg).
2 Dry Waste
Paper, plastics, metal, glass, rubber, thermocol, styrofoam, fabric, leather, rexine, wood
anything that can be kept for an extended period without decomposing is classified as
dry waste.
3 Hazardous waste
Household hazardous waste or HHW include three sub-categories E-waste; toxic
substances such as paints, cleaning agents, solvents, insecticides and their containers,
other chemicals; and biomedical waste.
Collection of waste
Technological interventions
Neither the DG set and Sewage Treatment Plant in Apartment Complex for waste
water being investigated. Apartment should obtain clearance certificate every year.
Department should go to each apartment to consult people and understand their
concerns. Waiting for local political party, to discuss and close issues these waste
management issue, is a waste of time.
I spoke to couple of food stall owner and when asked why dont you throw your
food plates in near by bins. They said we throw those near by market sewerage
because thats convenient to them. If they throw garbage more near to their stall
Municipality employees may ask them to remove their stall or ask for bribe or
penalize them. Its the same case most of the time. There should be persons to
liaison with these food stall owners and encourage them for proper garbage
disposal. Written/Documented by Neeraj Rath,
03-Jan-2017
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Household Waste Management
Every household is bound to use small bins in their house to keep wastes
of different types.
Rs.50-100 to be collected from each household for waste management.
For the apartments , the society is bound to deposit to municipality
Rs.50*(number of flats in the society).
Before implementation of such rules ,appropriate systems to be
developed.
Plastics
Bottles or glasses
Waste Papers
Electronic
Devices
There are organization who diligently collect surplus food and distribute
among poor people.
Written/Documented by Neeraj Rath,
03-Jan-2017
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Blue Color Bin- REUSE
Bottles or glasses
Electronic
Devices
Keep the diseases out of the locality and increase the longevity.
Increase the value of city, tourism and people will love to live in those cities.
Medical waste is primarily regulated by state environmental and health departments. EPA
does not currently have congressional authority to regulate medical waste and has not had
authority since the expiration of the Medical Waste Tracking Act (MWTA) of 1988 in 1991. It is
important to contact your state environmental program first when disposing of medical
waste. Contact your state environmental protection agency and your state health agency for
more information regarding your state's regulations on medical waste.
Food leftover
Cooking oil
Wooden residues
Lots of plastic granules
Smelly stuff like diapers etc.
Municipality to develop few depots (small Oil tanker) every 2-3 kms depending on the
population .
All the garage owners are responsible to dispose the oils in the specific location
designated by municipality.
Any violation to be monitored by third party/public and reported through mobile Apps
and can be penalized on the spot and to be added to the history of the
garage/restaurant owner. License can be revoked in case of any further issues.
Restaurants , road side stalls must be banned to poly bags to carry hot food.
It has several side effects in long term.
The rise in such cases is attributed largely to people eating hot food items carried in
plastic bags or boxes as they are of low quality. Whenever hot food or liquid is
packed in a plastic bag there is an exchange of toxic chemicals into the food.
Restaurants or road side food stalls may use Aluminium containers instead of poly bags.
In a long run food stalls suppose to use leaf trays which is quite natural and easy to dispos
Government should encourage local villages
Or small scale business units to setup tray manufacturing
from leaves. This will help every one to eat without any
hesitation and it retains the heritage of the culture.
All the vehicle washing centres has to go through specific license and their shop to be
placed off the road and they have to ensure that the water is drained to municipality
sewerage system.
A device to be deployed at the disposal point to monitor water usage and they will be
charged accordingly.
Many of the drains developed to drain water and avoid stagnant water. Now its
blocked because of the these waste disposal in drains.
Malaria and dengue are among the main dangers of stagnant water, which can
become a breeding ground for the mosquitoes that transmit these diseases. Stagnant
water can be dangerous for drinking because it provides a better incubator than
running water for many kinds of bacteria and parasites.
Hence its very important to develop covered or underground drains to avoid any
development of bacteria or contaminate the soil.
Modern grinders to be deployed to grind and break the garbage available in water to
dilute and flow to the sewerage depot for further processing.
To avoid/kill mosquitos naturally, municipality should use natural products to stop mosquitos
breeding. We can manufacture Neem Oil to apply in drains and stagnant water.
Neem oil acts as a great indoor mosquito-repellent owing to its smell that wards off
mosquitoes. One can make an effective insecticide by mixing neem oil and coconut oil
qual proportion and rub it on the exposed parts of a body.
Plastic masala pouches must be replaced by tin/steel storage which can be easily
recyclable. These tin storage packs can be refunded at any shop selling these with a part of
the amount refunded to the customer. Seller will get a part of the amount to return it to
recycle centre.
Small paper pouches can be developed to unload from the steel/tin storage and carry pan
masala for regular usage.
All the vegetable seller has to use recyclable bag . No polythene will be used.
Any proof of using polythene can terminate the license or removal of the shop from the
location or a penalty of Rs.2000 . Any online reporting of the incident through mobile
App has to be closed with the penalty proof online to avoid any bribe.
Seller can use the bag carried by customer or have to sell the bag along with vegetable .
All the reusable bags to be sold by municipality (or state owned small scale industry/
State owned tribal industry).
Any unauthorized disposal of garbage may lead to suspension of the license or removal
of the shop from the Location or a penalty of Rs.2000 . Any online reporting of the
incident has to be closed with the penalty proof online to avoid any bribe.
Written/Documented by Neeraj Rath,
03-Jan-2017
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Fish/Meat Market Policy
All fish/meat seller must use special designed washable bags for selling
Fish/meat products. Once we put cost on the carry bag usage , people will start
carrying Old reusable/washable bags to the market.
All the cut pieces/residues from the market should be disposed in the Red colour
bin so that those can be used for composting.
Biodegradable bags suggested. As India is moving to high polluted country, now its
time to take major steps to change the environment as healthy environment.
All water filter companies should take responsibility to recycle the candles or pay
the money per candle to take care of the recycling. All the components used in
the candles should be recycled separately as per the type of material used.
Candled should be collected by the service engineer of the water filter company
and deposited in designated municipality office.
Sorting
Blow
Cleaning Moulding >> Bottles
Its very important to implement the rules slowly region wise ,area wise without imposing
any strong rules. Because any strong rules will involve penalty, money, bribes and political
conclusions.
Any green waste (vegetable cuts, foods) collections for Animal/cows food should be clearly
promoted as GouMatas food.i.e Its for Goumata, please do not put non-veg food.
Please do not throw food outside or on road, lets serve to Goumata instead of throwing
for Goumata.
People shouldnt pickup flowers from the street as those are for decoration and beauty.
Lord may not like all flowers dumped to dustbin and we need to always decorate our
locality where everyone will be happy to come and see the beauty.
All the road side trails should be cement covered or grass planted. Cement will
radiate heat and in turn it will increase the environment temperature. Best way
to keep environment to plant low maintenance grass all around.
All recycled water can be pushed to plants or grass through dripping technology.
Water will be sprinkled in all major parts of cities to reduce temperature and put
down the dust particles in Air.
Though everyone curses that its too much of sunny or hot in India, but we can take
advantage of this to deploy solar setup to pump water through out the cities
for the above activities.
All the road side trails to All the road side trails
be planted with low soil should be planted
maintenance grass. with grass and in turn it
will reduce dust and
decrease temperature
of the environment.
Air filters to be developed using solar energy and used in major parts of the city to
filter the Air.
Vehicles more the 10 years old to be registered every year for pollution check. Any
pollution issue because of the vehicle to be immediately licence revoked.
Battery operated environment friendly vehicles to be promoted and to be made
available in subsidised price.
Mobile based App should be able to capture the details and recorded for
preventing such acts. Anyone should be able to capture the details and submit
the concern/violation through mobile App. Mobile App shouldnt capture any
details of the person submitting these issues.
Canals can be used for public transportation and battery operated boats can be
deployed for both transportation or tourism purpose.
Specific points to be identified for the irrigation to firms and farmers to pay
the minimum price to take advantage of water for cultivation.
Known as the Cigarette Waste Brigade, TerraCycles effort to make recycling cigarettes
easier for smokers is a first-of-its-kind program according to Albe Zakes, VP of
communications at the company, who told Fusion that before TerraCycle cigarettes
werent recyclable.
Rick Zultner, product development director for TerraCycle, recently toldWPVI-TV in New
Jersey that many cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate, a high-grade plastic thats
also used in sunglasses.
When TerraCycle gets a bundle of used cigarettes, the filters are first sterilized and then
shredded, according to Zakes. The remaining tobacco is then composted and the
shredded filter is blended with other recycled materials and turned into usable, industrial
plastic products like shipping pallets.
Old tires cant be hold/gathered by the tire shop . Old tires can be collected and sold to
Cement factories or can be grated and tires granules can be used in public kids gardens
to safeguard kids while falling from heights or near sliders.
Artificial lakes can be created and used for commercial/tourism fishing purpose.
Household do not have to go down to drop the garbages . Garbages bins provision
should be placed in such a way so that each household can drop the garbages from
their kitchen and Garbage collector can go to one place in the apartment location to
collect the garbage. It will reduce cost , effort to dispose/collect the garbage from the
household. All garbage bin will be connected to one common pipe through which
garbages will travel to one place by gravitation force. Details provided in pictorial
form in the next slide.
There should be digital boxes to be placed all over cities which can be monitored and
managed centrally. All the advertisement to be displayed depending on the Packages
availed by the commercial units. Advertisement can be shown streetwise, traffic
signals or in specific areas with the specified duration.
Any tangible form of advertisements - only papers to be used and it should be limited
or scope to be defined.
Currently Vellore municipality using such environment friendly vehicles for garbage collection.
As we have less space inside the cities and mostly owned by private parties, its difficult
to have organized planned markets. Now lets understand where we can have space all
Over cities to have planned markets and generate revenue for the municipality or
government. Most of the time when one shop rented by private party its cost is much
higher than government commercial shops. Most of the time its creating issues for the
Small business units to sustain because of high price of the rental property.
This in turn increasing the cost of the materials/goods sold which is increasing the cost
of the city life. Also there are no such effective garbage management or toilets planned
by the rental property owners provided.
We can have planned parking space , planned shops underground just below the
regular roads row wise. Every intersections in the city roads will have underground
passages to cross the road for pedestrians or bi-cycle riders. It will provide safe
transportation for the pedestrians or bi-cycle riders while crossing the roads.
We can have planned shops of different sizes and packing space underground of a
cities busy road like we have such options available in London to move trains
underground without affecting busy roads through out the cities.
All the waste residues can be utilized while constructing these underground
markets, shops.
Any existing markets can have multi level parking and avoid road side parking,
avoid any road side congestion.
Written/Documented by Neeraj Rath,
03-Jan-2017
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Environment Friendly markets
Proper planning for Garbage collection can be made.
Public toilets can be maintained from the rental costs.
This can become a cost centre to the government to generate revenue and spend for
public service.
Parking issues can be resolved and unauthorized shops can be closed and can moved
to the underground shops without affecting their social life and earnings.
All the shop type to be decided by the municipality to ensure we have all types of
shops available to serve locality.
All the tenants to be selected using lottery application developed by IT team to avoid
any bribery for shop allocation. Rental contracts to be revised time to time.
In case of idols painted, water soluble and nontoxic natural dyes should be used.
Worship materials like flowers, clothes, decorating material etc. should be removed before
immersion . Non-biodegradable materials should be collected separately for
disposal in sanitary landfills.
Public should be educated on ill effects of immersion in the holy water bodies through
mass awareness programme.
Municipality software should have a handshaking with these mobile based systems
To ensure all the concerns or queries reports are responded and published for
Customer satisfaction in the website.
Use of artificial monitoring and other IT system based management can provide better
Vision and support for effective garbage management.
Easy to
Easy to
Resistant Durable Insulator Inexpensive produce
produce
Durability Plastic is light, mouldable, sturdy, and can have countless forms, but one of the
most known features is its durability. Plastic is artificially created polymer compound which
can survive many centuries before nature is able to degrade it (some degrade into basic
ingredients and some only divide into very small pieces).
This troublesome ability of plastic doesnt have great immediate impact on our
environment, but its continuous dumping into seas and land will eventually create problems
for future generations. Even with all this durability, plastic products are not indestructible
and it cannot be used as a basic building block for everything we need.
Environmental Harm Decomposing of plastic product can last from 400 to 1000 years with
newer degradable compounds, but before that degradation can happen waste plastic will
continue to clog our waterways, oceans, forests, and other natural habitats that are filled
with animals who mistake dangerous plastic for food. Chemical dangers are also high,
because both creation and recycling of plastic produce toxic materials of many kinds.
Composition
Most plastics contain organic polymers. The vast majority of these polymers are based on
chains of carbon atoms alone or with oxygen, sulfur, or nitrogen as well.
Most plastics contain Additives (0 to 50%). The average content of additives is 20% by
weight of the polymer.
Stabilizers like fire retardants are used to lower the flammability of the material.
polypropylene
polycarbonate
Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1 million sea
creatures every year.
Building and
Construction
23%
Total number of years it takes for a plastic bag to degrade 1,000 years
Total amount of plastic bags that were discarded in 2008 3.5 million tons
Total amount of plastic floating in every square mile of ocean 46,000 pieces
Average plastic bags consumed per family in 4 trips to the grocery store 60
Percent of plastic made every year that will end up in the ocean 10%
Percent of household waste that is plastic 11%
Difficult
to Recycle
Replace plastic travel mugs with stainless steel for hot beverages.
When you cant avoid plastic, check container bottoms for recycling
codes (in triangle with chasing arrows). Choose those easily recycled.
Shop at the local farmers markets. Buy can instead of the plastic bottle .
The amount of oil needed to produce a years worth of plastic packaging could fuel
480,000 cars for a year.
Solid Waste
Written/Documented by Neeraj Rath,
03-Jan-2017
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
4-R for Plastics!
Refuse
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
More than 5 years experience working in USA and UK regions as a software consultant.
Had been a silent observer of the environment changes and pollution.
Recently started looking into solid waste management issues and started working on
the planning part to reduce soli waste management issues and improve Urban/rural healthy
lifestyle.
Planning to write proposals/provide support related to environment issues or garbage
management issues and free lancing. Implementing any change to save environment would
require lot of discussion with the project team, locals before enforcing any rules to
implement effectively.
Its not important how much you are educated but its very important how much you are
concerned for your family, people or environment to save this world.