Directorate of Environment has prepared Comprehensive Action Plan for Waste Management in consultation with stakeholder departments in compliance to National Green Tribunal (NGT) Order dated 16.01.2019.
The Action Plan aims to optimize the management of solid waste by adopting systematic decentralized approach for processing of wet waste to minimize environmental impacts entailed with transportation and to ensure maximum resource recovery from dry (recyclable/non-recyclable) waste.
Salient Features of Action Plan for Solid Waste Management
Collection,
segregation and transportation of Waste
Ensure 100% segregation of waste at source.
Proficient door to Door collection and transportation of segregated waste.
Ensuring compliance by Bulk Waste Generators
Elimination of garbage from vulnerable points/vacant plots
Enabling mechanized collection vehicles with GPS
Sweeping of Residential and Public Areas
Setting up of Waste
processing facilities
Composting of wet waste closest to its generation (on-site/decentralized manner).
Setting up of Material Recovery Facilities
Maximum material recovery out of recyclables and non-recyclable fractions of waste
On site Management of Green/Horticulture Waste
Other key activities
Integration of informal sector in formal chain of Solid Waste Management
Sweeping of Residential and Public Areas
Community awareness for behaviour change
Citizen Grievance Redressal through SwachhApp
Treatment &
management of Legacy Waste
Reclamation/ bio-mining of existing waste dump sites.