India generates enormous quantities of municipal waste every day, but much of it is still discarded as mixed waste. Food waste, plastics, paper, glass, sanitary waste, and other materials are often placed in the same bin. Once wet and dry waste are…
Waste Management, Recycling & Circular Economy
Municipal, industrial, plastic, electronic and hazardous waste; segregation, collection and processing, recycling and composting, landfill reduction, producer responsibility, resource recovery, reuse, circular-economy systems, sustainable consumption and reducing waste generation.
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Waste segregation at home has little value if municipalities subsequently mix wet and dry waste during collection or fail to collect it reliably. In many cities, residents have limited visibility into who is responsible for collection, what service standards contractors must meet,…
Reliable waste collection, transportation, sorting, recycling, and disposal cost money. Municipalities must pay for workers, vehicles, processing facilities, recycling infrastructure, and safe disposal, yet these costs are often funded largely through general municipal revenues. When residents do not directly contribute toward the…
India has made enormous progress in expanding access to toilets and reducing open defecation. But constructing a toilet does not by itself solve the sanitation problem. Every toilet produces fecal waste that must ultimately be safely contained, collected where necessary, transported, treated,…