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Waste Management
In Mumbai

02 - Shubhi Parashar
14 - Rhushabh Pradhan
55 - Hima Verma
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01
Introduction
Waste management in the city of Mumbai

02 Methodology
How waste is managed

INDEX
03 Case Study
Problems and their Solutions

04
Conclusion
Our Solution to waste management
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❑ Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), spread over 4,355sq.

Km

❑ All Municipal Corporations in India are mandated to look

into solid waste

❑ All the seven municipal corporations depend upon

centralized means of managing waste

❑ Managed by informal sector and now emerging recyclers

who are setting up processes for decentralized waste

management.
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❑ City of Mumbai is spilt into two parts- Greater Mumbai and

the region surrounding it Introduction

❑ They look after the basic sanitation facilities provided to the

citizens under the 74th Constitutional Amendment

❑ The linear system of waste dumping highlights that waste is in

fact, mismanaged

❑ The link of such high value waste is noticed with the waste

traders or ‘Raddiwallahs’ who are seen almost in every nook

and corner of our cities.

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❑ Underground bins are installed for first time at 4 locations in

Mumbai

❑ Salient features include aesthetic twin door waste disposal,

separate for Wet and Dry Waste

❑ Compactor compatible standard size bins for collection and

storage of waste underground of 1.1 CuM capacity each

❑ Proposal for installation at additional 40 locations under

process
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CASE STUDY
● The Corporation disposes waste through landfill or land dumping method

● At present there are 4 dumping sites in operation

● Waste is brought here from various locations

● Refuse and debris are leveled at these sites by means of bulldozers and landfill compactors

● The land filling carried out here is open dump tipping

● At present there are 3 landfill sites in Mumbai

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ISSUES IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN MUMBAI

Primary Collection Lack of Dumping Ground

1 Because of non-segregation, part of 2 With increasing urbanization, land
the waste that gets dumped on the available for dumping and creation
disposal sites is recyclable in of landfill sites for disposal of
nature. waste is becoming unavailable.

Enforcement of MSW rules Law Provisions

3 The MCGM has not yet been able to 4 Municipal Solid Waste
enforce MSW Rules 2000. Although (Management & Handling) Rule,
it is mandatory to segregate waste 2000: The Ministry of Environment
at the household level. and
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Enforcement of New Efforts in Waste Management by MCGM

Advanced Locality Management Slum Adoption Programme Refuse Paper Plastic and Wood Fuel

The scheme has been initiated by Residents were aware of the RPPWF is a result of in depth result
MCGM with the main objective of problems related to inadequate of ecologically
mobilizing citizens practices of household disposal
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OUR SOLUTION
● The Government of Maharashtra and BMC should work with their partners

● Provisions should be made to handle the non-recyclable wastes that are being generated

● State Government should take a proactive role in leveraging their power to optimize resources

● Refuse and debris are leveled at these sites by means of bulldozers and landfill compactors
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OUR SOLUTION
Mumbai should choose following options or a combination of them:

1. Best address the issue of overall solid waste management

2. Have the least impact on public health and environment, And the Government should propose

3. RPPWF Plant at Kanjurmarg dumping ground site as abundance of land is on site

4. ABT technology for faster treatment of waste

5. Incineration technology upgradation to produce energy from waste

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