Comments on: Solid Waste Management – A PPP Opportunity?

By: sudesna

sudesna — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:31:39 +0000

public participation is necessary for a proper wastw management system.They will segregate,they will not litter–when? When they will be provided with a proper service. At least my experience say so. Segregation at source is the only solution to waste management. DMC has realized that—-at last.Mine is a little job–in a small area.Around 20 tons were source segregated. but i am able to change the habits of littering, can change the approach towards wastes.

By: Partho Pramanick

Partho Pramanick — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:46:00 +0000

During my experience of nearly seven years in solid waste management, one thing became very clear that segregation at source is to be practiced. There are lot of initiatives to manage wastes but goes in vein because of not identifying wealth in wastes.In India, we cannot afford sanitary land filling as land is precious here and there are lot of municipalities who do not have land as trenching ground.even.The source segregation needs lot of study on human behavior against waste littering.A continous sensitization programme is to be planned according to the sentiments of the residents towards their city and ultimately it works as wonders. I am happy that myself have achived it.

By: Vinu Ravindran

Vinu Ravindran — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:39:14 +0000

I would like to know about Segregation Process of Solid Waste Management & Recycling of the same. I seriously wanna see my CITY GO GREEN though substantial amount is spent on it , Greener is far far away & it would provide employment opportunity too. Anybody can guide me please write…

By: Abdulkadir Diyo Sule

Abdulkadir Diyo Sule — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:33:39 +0000

Good work by Partho on ppp opportunity. Am very much interested in the topic and would be grateful if I can be opportuned to have a full text of PPP ON SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT. Thank you sir

By: Mailene

Mailene — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:30:57 +0000

Risks??Risks that you’re talking about are just manifestation of ineffective government. There is nothing wrong with involving private and engaging them in the delivery of the so-called “public goods”.
Cleanliness of environment is everybody’s concern. If one city or town is to employ such scheme, make sure that they have established a definite management or policy framework and strictly enforce it so as to mitigate if not control those risks.

By: manali

manali — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:32:41 +0000

municipal solid waste management & handling rules 2000 applies to every authority responsible for collection, segregation, storage, transportation, & disposal of msw hope it does well.

By: Small Steps, Big Possibilities | But the Obvious

Small Steps, Big Possibilities | But the Obvious — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:41:04 +0000

[...] waste management system (an issue we’ve covered here and here) in Maharastra shows a PPP at work – a privatized system in a city named Latur requires [...]

By: Partho Pramanick

Partho Pramanick — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:56:22 +0000

The political will is the first priority.Govt. bodies and municipalities give priority to present problems which they face but do not think for future problems due to environmental decay.Their view is that, they will solve problems when they will face it but not now.Because doing something for environment does not provide political gains or assure next time seat. How can we change this mentality?It took two years time to change people towards not littering.I believe there should be a positive approach for a long time planning and implementation.Municipalities got funds for waste management and they started purchasing equipments first and does not know what to do the next and sitting idle.

By: Badhri

Badhri — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:34:08 +0000

Here is a link that may help for the common man to do his bit

http://dailydump.org/#

By: Badhri

Badhri — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:25:20 +0000

Funny you come up with this question and funnier still mention an article on India Together. I read another related article titled Burning biomass is not green – II

and sent the author an e- mail asking, guess what?, precisely the same question. Here is the conversation
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[Badhri] How effective are the public-private partnerships? I remember that chennai corporation and French conglomerate Onyx partnered for garbage collection. But I don’t know how effective it is (was) Can you throw some light on status of partnerships in general?

[Gopal Krishna] The Corporation paid about Rs. 4 crore a month by charging Rs 1,212 per tonne for garbage clearance. There were complaints against the company. In any case the company was simply collecting garbage and dumping it on the dumpsites. There is no engineering miracle in collecting and dumping waste..the lesson from Suryapet [where wastes are source segregated, collected and either composted or recycled with the aim of zero wastes] is loud and clear. There is no alternative to community based waste management that aims for Zero Waste.
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The explanation is very detailed. The answer that I inferred is….the way forward is waste management, if the municipal authorities get the private companies (like onyx) to composting and reclycling wastes rather than just dumping, why not PPP?

If Partho can provide a web link to his private organization, it would be useful.