Garbage Management in India - Key Solutions

Dear Friends,

Below is a summary of the various solutions outlined by you related to Garbage Management in India.

Please review them and if there is anything missing, kindly add to it as a comment.

Thanks again for your participation.

We will soon be putting the collective whitepaper on the subject together and submit to our leadership for action.

Ministry of Urban Development

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Garbage Management in India – Solutions
1. Garbage must be segregated at the source , i.e. domestic/commercial/Industrial level
2. Steep fine should be imposed on throwing garbage in undesignated areas
3. More dustbins should be installed in public areas
4. Garbage should be picked up from the bins by the corporation at fixed time everyday
5. Separate bins should be installed for wet and dry waste
6. Plastic bags should be completely banned
7. People should be educated on segregating wet and dry waste
8. Various campaigns should be organised in rural India to educate people on garbage management
9. Wet Garbage can either be used to make manure or compost gas or any other useful method to reuse
10. RWAs (Resident Welfare Associations) should be actively involved in manage waste in the societies/colonies
11. It should be made mandatory for big societies to have a garbage treatment plants
12. Public awareness campaigns about garbage management/ littering the streets should be done
13. People should be educated about the hazard of garbage and spread of diseases
14. Municipal worker in town as well as rural areas should be provide modern equipment to collect garbage
15. Large furnaces should be built to dispose the dry garbage
16. The truck which comes to collect garbage can be installed with a high temperature furnace itself
17. The municipal workers should be made answerable to this fact
18. Job of garbage collection should be outsourced and the private contractor should charge a nominal fee to the residents/RWAs
19. Households should be educated on how to make manure with the kitchen waste
20. Biometric attendance system should be installed in Municipal offices so that all the employees show up for work
21. Hawkers should be fined for littering
22. Government should develop better R&D centres for garbage management
23. Waste management should be taught in middle school
24. Stop illegal import of garbage (medical waste, hazardous chemicals, used end of life electronic equipment etc.)
25. All garbage vehicles (Trucks, Tempo, Lorries) should be properly closed while running with Garbage on Roads
26. Cleaning services should be outsourced to private agencies rather than government officials. There should be heavy fine in case of failure in their job and suspension from any further contracts more