Introduction

 Economic development is the top priority of any nation. It leads to increase in the standard
of living of the people of the nation. But it comes at an unbearable cost.
 The cost in the form of environmental pollution. Rapid population growth, urbanization, and
industrial growth have led to severe plastic waste management problems in several cities
around the world.
 India is one such country facing a problem. The main problem, however, is the lack or
inadequate environment management. The basic requirement, therefore, is a need of an
approach toward systematic, integrated and technological development for the minimization
of environmental pollution.
 Nature has witnessed a considerable increase in the production of plastics in last few
decades and simultaneous increased consumption of plastic materials.
 The basic properties of durability, resistance to chemicals, safety and hygienic nature, relative
inexpensiveness to produce, thermal and electrical insulations, and lighter weight than the
competing materials helped plastics to be indispensable in every aspects of life.
 With time, stability and durability of plastics have been improved.
 Plastics compromise diverse group of chemically complex compounds. Plastics are formed
into any number of products, and different plastic resins are difficult to differentiate.
 This leads to problems in collection, separations, and recycling. Because of its durability,
plastics accumulate and remain persistent in the environment.
 Problems related to plastic waste management are more than just the disposal. There are
administrative, economic, and societal tribulations that must be addressed. T
 he scientific efforts to sort out all these complications are usually referred as waste
management. In this aspect, the management encompasses planning, design, and operation
of facilities for collecting, transporting, processing, recovering, and finally disposing of waste.

Percentage

Packaging
13.00% 7.00%
Building & Construction
Consumer Products
42.00%
Industrial Goods
Other
24.00%

14.00%

Percentage of Plastic Consumption in India by Different Market Sectors.

Value Chain for Integrated Plastic Waste Management

Process Flow

1.) Collection of plastic management

Plastic consumption is continuously increasing owing to urbanization and the growing global
demand. Although rising rates of plastic production project positively for Indian businesses
and the economic, unscientific waste management practices are leading adverse
environment effects. This calls for efficient planning, incorporation of “design for
environment concept”, better use application and plastic waste management with
sustainable solutions and alternatives.
2.) Recycling Process Plant
Source separation of waste coupled with the segregated collection and transportation have
been weak links in the waste supply chain. While it the first and foremost step, it is often
neglected. In the Indian smaller towns, waste is deposited by the residents at the community
garbage bins which are picked up by municipal trucks and transferred to the disposal site. In
cities, the house-to-house collection systems have been adapted where residents deposit
waste with the contractual or municipal crew who collect it from the houses using hand carts
or tricycles. Most of the cities lack a processing plant with a sanitary landfills site and follow
crude methods of waste dumping such as landfilling of mixed waste. The waste management
snowballs into bigger issues in big cities owing to the size and quantity of unsegregated
waste. Municipalities must devise strategies to develop a detailed ward-wise waste collection
plan coupled with the IEC outreach activity to sensitize the citizens on waste segregation and
its benefits. Modalities, such as collection days for dry and wet waste and engagement with
self- help groups for the informal sector integration may be checked.
3.) Value Chain
Recycled plastics have a great potential and impact at the environment. It helps to address
the pre-existing plastic waste problems and saves oil resources (every tonne of plastic waste
recycled result in saving approximately 3.8 barrels of petroleum). Some of the key product
sector that contain post-consumer plastics include construction, furniture, landscaping,
shipping, soft toys, and so on. Scientists of the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, have
 taken steps towards the developments of fabric from the recycling of PET bottles. This fabric
is being used for making of T-shirt, scarves, denim, and pillows. In fact, the jersey of the
Indian cricket team is made of recycled PET bottles.

Hence, adding value down the line and making the world greener.

Creating Awareness regarding the segregation of Waste

Awareness can be raised in the following ways-

 Address cultural practices and beliefs

 Emphasize health benefits
 Use simple messages and multiple media types
 Build on existing neighbourhood networks
 Emphasize the economic and health benefits of proper solid waste management
 Frame waste management activities as a topic of great interest for voters
 Increase visibility and credibility of waste management activities
 Emphasize the national policy impacts on local activities
 Identify instances where city activities support national goals
 Communicate about the national benefits of proper local waste management
 Tailor communication to the audience
 Emphasize the economic benefits to businesses
 Target groups with broad influence (e.g., tourism boards)

Integrating Government Departments for hassle free implementation

 Local Government Bodies must provide waste management services, which include waste
removals, storage and disposal services.

 Municipalities must work with industries and other stakeholders to extend recycling at
municipal level. Municipality must provide additional bins for separation at-source and are
responsible for diverting organic waste from landfills and composting it.

 Municipalities must designate waste management officers from their administration to

coordinate waste management matter. Municipalities must also register transporter of waste
above certain thresholds on a list of waste transporter.

 At their discretion, municipalities may set local waste services standards for waste
separation, compacting, management and disposal of solid waste, amongst others. Local
standards must be aligned with any provincial and national standards where these exists.

 State government is the primary regulatory authority for waste activity for the whole state.

 It must promote and ensure the implementation of the plastic waste management and
national norms and standards.

 It must also prepare an annual performance reports on its implementation

 Provinces have discretionary powers, some of which may only be exercised in consultation
with the all concerned local bodies. These powers include setting provincial norm and
standards, declaring a priority waste, listing of waste management activity, registering waste
 transporters, requesting the preparation of industry waste management plan, identifying
contaminated land and establishing a provincial waste information system.

 National government is ultimately responsible for ensuring that the Waste Acts and Laws are
implemented and that the various provision is harnessed in the most appropriate and
effective way.

 It is responsible for:


 Creating the National Plastic Waste Management Strategy.
 Setting national level standards.
 Establishing and maintaining a National Plastic Waste Information System.
 Preparing and implementing a National Integrated Plastic Waste Management Plan.
 Provide licenses and other permissions for the Plastic Waste Management Plan without
many problems and delays.

Strategy for making the model successful

 Focus on Volume
The more plastic waste that would be generated the more decrease in fixed costs it will lead,
in the further steps
 Incentivizing the Safai Mitras
Since the focus is not only on the Plastic Waste Management but also improving condition of
Safai Mitras, they should be incentivise for collecting more and more plastic waste and
submitting it to next authorities.
At times, due to lack of such benefits they tend to sell the waste to the Kabadiwalas and
other vendors
 Awareness amongst people
If more and more people are made aware about the usage of plastic waste and be
encouraged to be a part of this process, it would become easier to get more segregated
plastic waste which will help cutting costs in segregation
 Focus on research
Researching on methods to improve the waste recycling process will help to cut the cost
down
 Multi-Vendor Work
Identifying different vendors for different processes would help in individual bargaining and
getting good discounts along with reducing the monopoly factor
Many vendors, because of the monopoly charge exorbitant rates and often strand the work
 Clubbing with government schemes
Using Skill India Scheme to get workers and Start up India and Make in India campaigns,
cheap skilled labour and vendors can be obtained.
Since there are government subsidies, it will help in cost cutting
 Branding of End Products
The end products obtained can be branded along with factor of indigenous and eco-friendly
items, good sales at good prices can be obtained.
The Cow Dung products, bio-fuel etc are the products which have thrived upon this.

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