Proper Waste Management and Minimisation

Submitted by Muskan Mehtani

BSC Mathematics Hons.
Roll No.-1867
• What is Proper Waste Management?
• Proper waste disposal and management can be done
by applying the 3R – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Reducing means lessening the amount of
trash/garbage produced. Reusing refers to using
materials more than once while recycling means
creating new material or product out of trash/garbage .
Simple Ways To Reduce Waste At Home

• Segregate Waste:-

• Simply start by getting colour coated bins. Differentiate the bins into
following: Green for organic, yellow for glass, white for paper, grey for metal,
red for hazard and blue for plastic. Segregate waste into two categories - Bio
Degradable and Non-Bio-Degradable.
ADOPT COMPOSTING

• Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has contributed in reducing the waste generation

through composting. The waste to compost conversion has been increased to
13.13 lakh tonnes per year as per the government statistics 1.5 lakh tonnes per
year in March 2016.

Composting can reduce household waste generation by 30 per cent.

Composting is also beneficial for plant growth as it provides many essential
nutrients for them and it can also be used as fertilizer. It is believed that a
family of 4 can easily reduce their waste from 1000 Kg to less than 100 kg
every year if they adopt segregation and composting.
 What are common barriers to
implementing Waste Reduction
programs?

• The most important barriers are

identified as household hazardous
waste, insufficient funds for SWM
research, local architecture, a lack of
staff capability, and a lack of a standard
process for data collection and
analysis.
 DID YOU KNOW
*WASTE COLLECTION EFFICIENCY IN INDIAN
CITIES RANGES FROM 50% TO 90%.• *OUT OF
THE TOTAL MUNICIPAL WASTE COLLECTED,
ON AN AVERAGE 94% IS DUMPED . ON LAND
AND 5% IS COMPOSTED.
*BETWEEN 2000 AND 2025 THE WASTE
COMPOSITION OF INDIAN GARBAGE WILL
UNDERGO THE FOLLOWING CHANGES:
*ORGANIC WASTE WILL GO UP FROM 40
PERCENT TO 60 PERCENT
*PLASTIC WILL RISE FROM 4% TO 6%
*METAL WILL ESCALATE FROM 1% TO 4%
*GLASS WILL INCREASE FROM 2% TO 3%
*PAPER WILL CLIMB FROM 5% TO 15%
*OTHERS (ASH, SAND, GRIT) WILL DECREASE
FROM 47% TO 12%
 CONCLUSION

• It is found that with increase in the global

population and the rising demand for food and
other essentials, there has been a rise in the amount
of waste being generated daily by each household.
Waste that is not properly managed, especially
excreta and other liquid and solid waste from
households and the community, are a serious
health hazard and lead to the spread of infectious
diseases.