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Community Based Waste Management: Some Key Experiences

Community Based Waste Management: Some Key Experiences. Mrs Almitra H Patel, Member Supreme Court Committee for Solid Waste Management in Class 1 Cities in India Ranchi, 16.11.2002. The best way to keep streets clean is not to dirty them at all.

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Community Based Waste Management: Some Key Experiences

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  1. Community Based Waste Management: Some Key Experiences Mrs Almitra H Patel, Member Supreme Court Committee for Solid Waste Management in Class 1 Cities in India Ranchi, 16.11.2002

  2. The best way to keep streets clean is not to dirty them at all

  3. Open waste breeds half-wild dogs that bite kids, spread rabies and attack village livestock

  4. What is the answer? First, minimise all wastes :

  5. Park and Garden wastes can be composted on-site or used as fuel or sent to cremation grounds

  6. Managing all wastes at home is best. Keep kitchen waste separate, and compost it at home

  7. Use potted plants or plant beds : waste put onto soil in thin layers decomposes soon and is fertiliser

  8. Apartment bldgs can compost their wastes in very little space

  9. Planter-composting over drains beautifies the street while keeping leachate off the road

  10. Vermi-bins can beautify pavements but should not make them too narrow to walk on

  11. Houses on a street can use common compost bins

  12. Common compost-tanks for a moholla need air and drainage

  13. Roadside dustbins are always dirty. Remove them and grow a garden in that spot to keep it clean

  14. Moholla waste has to be collected door-to-door at fixed times

  15. Handcarts can be of many types, but all should have bins to avoid manual loading of waste

  16. It helps to have a shelf and storage space for sorted dry waste

  17. “Dry” recyclable waste can be collected weekly in larger carts

  18. Moholla or City must provide space for Collecting and Storing “dry” recyclable wastes

  19. Also space to collect truckloads of dry waste for shipment out

  20. Otherwise it will encroach on roads or even riverbeds

  21. Market waste is easy to compost

  22. Use space in Pumping Stations

  23. Larger quantities of waste are harder to handle

  24. and need costly mechanised equipment for turning & sieving

  25. Unturned dumps cause terrible pollution;leachate ruins soil & water

  26. Bulk wastes are composted with the help of cowdung-water + rock phosphate or low-cost biocultures

  27. Form waste into “wind-rows” and spray with bioculture

  28. Proper moisture control and turning is essential

  29. Such compost is used by farmers and returns nutrients to the soil

  30. But plastic wastes are a major problem in composting and need very costly machinery to remove

  31. Thermocole and plastic carrybags can be recycled if kept separate

  32. Citizens can help by keeping “dry” waste out of kitchen waste

  33. This is the law of the land now: daily doorstep collection of wet wastes for composting, dry wastes given separately

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