Qualitative assessment of waste management practices in industries and analysis of employment and revenue generation potential in this field in electronics city, Bangalore
Student name: Ms Shalini Soni
Guide: Dr Prateek Sharma
Year of completion: 2012
Host Organisation: Waste Wise Trust, Bangalore
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Mr Anselm Rosario
Abstract: Solid Waste Management has been very ignorant field for the policy makers
and government bodies. Although India has the most comprehensive
Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000, the degree
of enforcement or implementation is not desirable. There is no consolidated
official data available about the status of compliance of MSW Rules in the
country (India Infrastructure Report, 2006). There is still uncontrollable
amount of waste dumped into landfill in an unscientific manner. Municipal
waste from Industries, Educational Institutes and Hotels is one of the most
unconcerned types of waste. Valuable waste is traded and recycled by many
of the Industries but mixed and reject waste is dumped without any
accountability where there is a scope of segregation and treatment. Moreover,
there is no quantification of the amount of waste generated and measures to
reduce waste are barely practiced. This project gives an insight about the
Municipal Waste Management practices in Industries of Bangalore. It
highlights the importance of waste segregation and recycling to minimize the
amount of waste dumped through projecting the amount of the waste
generated, collected, recycled and dumped by the Industries in Bangalore. It
also studies the factors which influence the waste management. This project
also gives an account of market potential through the supply chain of waste
management field. Segregation and recycling activities has opened an area
for employment and revenue generation for various categories of people like
waste pickers, recycling vendors, scrap dealers etc. Waste picking has been in
trend since a long time but now many governmental agencies and NGOs are
indulging in providing better conditions for waste pickers and providing them
better employment.
Key Words: municipal solid waste management, waste segregation, waste
recycling, employment generation, market potential
