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H.V.Gayitri Climate Proofing with Solid Waste Management

East Coast Regional Consultation on Climate Change Adaptation Rajahmundry, AP, August 26-27, 2013 Session V: Cities & Climate Change. H.V.Gayitri Climate Proofing with Solid Waste Management. The Issue. Class I cities contribute 79% of urban waste Urban India producing 126,000 tons per day

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H.V.Gayitri Climate Proofing with Solid Waste Management

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  1. East Coast Regional Consultation on Climate Change AdaptationRajahmundry, AP, August 26-27, 2013Session V: Cities & Climate Change H.V.GayitriClimate Proofing with Solid Waste Management

  2. The Issue • Class I cities contribute 79% of urban waste • Urban India producing 126,000 tons per day • Mumbai alone emits 22000 tons per year as pollutants into the atmosphere through open burning and landfill fires • Unsanitary landfilling pollutes ground, surface water, emits green house gases, and pollutes the air The Waste Venture view: • At Waste Ventures we believe that Waste is Wealth • We use waste to change lives of the most marginalised communities

  3. Our Offer Household Collection Street Collection Productive Use Processing / Recycling • Collection of waste at door step • Segregation of waste • Daily reliable service • Weather Neutral • Women / elderly friendly • Human interface • Take waste from households directly to secondary collection to maintain clean streets • Segregation of garbage • Clean bins & surrounding • Acceptable to use • Garden waste collected properly • Healthy surrounding for households • Segregated waste at dump site • Desired standard • Best quality compost • Resource optimization • Recycling of plastic • Prevent of generation of toxic material • Value recovered • Workers in safe work environment. • Best quality compost • Sale of glass, paper, metal, etc. • Recycled plastic used as alternative to virgin raw materials in manufacturing plants • Increased life of dump site

  4. Challenges We design and test strategies to address these challenges in our Learning Labs Learnings can be transplanted from/ to any part of the state/ country Insights are relevant for both public sector policy and private sector enterprise Reasonably good policies- but far from satisfactory delivery. Lack of awareness /regressive mind-sets Lack of political will Lack of understanding of what is required to implement successfully (India is littered with failed SWM initiatives)

  5. Infinite Opportunities • We have : • 7 Mega Cities • 28 Metros • 968 cities with population more than 50,000 And hardly any of these have any visible/viable SWM • We could bring about a social revolution by empowering the poorest of the poor and the most marginalised communities of this country. • Change the quality of life of 79% of the population of this country by ensuring cleaner air, cleaner water and a healthier earth. • We break even within 18 months and achieve a 28% profit margin by year 5. This is important to attract others to adopt our model

  6. We need to do something now! • In a BAU scenario Class I & II Cities in India will be generating 54 million tons per year by 2021 • That is enough waste to bury the entire 110 square km area of Rajahmundry in garbage piled up to your waists • Just two years ago, we were generating 35 million tons per year and within a decade waste generation will be increasing by a little more than 50% • In a BAU scenario, India will not be able to dispose these wastes properly and productively – • UNLESS-We do something NOW!!

  7. INVITED FOR QUERIES & SUGGESTIONS www.wasteventures.org

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