Green, Clean Jobs in SWM & Recycling

Lakshmi Narayanan,KKPKP

Are there jobs?

RETAILERS

STOCKISTS

WHOLESALERS

RECYCLERS

The Recycling Pyramid

Large existing informal sector presence in SWM and Recycling

Recycling provides 24 times as many jobs per ton of waste as do incinerators and landfills

(1% of the population- World Bank, 1.5 Million wastepickers in India)

Large potential for even more jobs in allied waste handling areas

Current and potential jobs

Dignity, minimum income for decent living, education, voice, no discrimination, safety and protection, better standard of living, equity, security, rights are protected, social coverage, unionisation, child labour

Are they Clean/Decent jobs?

Economic value of recycling

Provides a living wage

Wastepickers’ Contribution to SWM in Pune

PMC saves Rs.12 cores per annum in waste handling costs due to wastepickers

(All values in Metric Tonnes)

Not so clean jobs?

Unhygienic conditions

OSH

Dignity

Security

Recycling reduces land requirement for landfills for MSWComposting and bio-methanation divert organic waste from landfill Pune’s wps save GHG emissions 2,94,316 MT of CO2 equivalent (mtCO2-eq) pa

Are they Green jobs?

Not so green jobs?

100% retrieval of recyclables rare

Mixed waste stream at landfill

Methane generation and fires

Poor inclusive

Formalised

Compliant with various norms

Appropriate technology

Skill upgradation

Value chain

Moving towards decent, greener work

Labour related issues

Regulation

Register

Recognise

Integrate

Skill upgradation

‘Formalise’

Right to provide service

Rights to scrap

Upskill

Invest

Protective gear

Social protection- Insurance

Largest user fee based eco-friendly door to door segregated waste collection system in India

PMC PPP-SWaCH Model

Features of Model:

Decentralised

Low Cost

Energy Efficient

Worker owned

Environmentally Sound

High Resource Recovery

Sustainable

Allied opportunities:

Collection of garden waste, e waste, C and D waste, household rejects,

Management of MERFs

Recyclables – sort, grade, market – (done on street corners, along public roads, exposed to heat, dust, pollution, rain?

Need enclosed spaces with running water and washrooms

Intermediate processing of recyclables

Reduces volume and weight for transportIncreases value

Terracycling – Decentralised Organics processing - Compost & Biogas

Over 65% of MSW weight

High Moisture content

Failure of other waste processing technology

Fair Trade Cash for Scrap Centres for trade in recyclables

Space allocation for retail, wholesale scrap trade

Cooperatives of recyclers to handle trade

Up-cycling -Waste products

Production of post-consumer pre-recycling goods:Woven plastic bags; beads of magazine paper; plastic substitute paper packaging;

Space Reservation - Decentralized Materials Handling and Processing

Development Plans to incorporate waste handling needsAllocate space for decentralised handling of organic and recyclable waste

Enabling policy framework

Convergence between the agencies responsible for SWM (MoUD, State, ULBs)

Many GRs and existing policies exist- need to be implemented

Regulators(MoEF,CPCB)

Consistent, uniform policy

Finance and infrastructure (MMSE, MoLE)

Invest resources to upgrade systems, appropriate decetralised infrastucture

Creation of State Social Security Board for unorganisedworkers constituted under The Unorganized Sector Workers’Social Security Act, 2008

Coverage under Rastra Swasthya Bima Yojana and Aam Admi bima yojana / Janashree Bima yojana

Pre Metric Scholarships for the Children of Unclean Occupation

Other benefits available under The Unorganized Sector Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008

Social Security Measures

Municipal Solid Waste ( Management & Handing) Rules 2000

Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation Act)1986

The Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act 2005

The National environmental Policy,2006

Bajaj Committee report

Supreme court Committee Report

National level legal instruments

Action plan for effective implementation of Municipal Solid Waste ( Management & Handing) Rules 2000

Maharashtra Non Biodegradable Garbage Control Act, 2006

Permitting the rag pickers to collect the waste from homes, shops and market -Government Circular

BPMC Act and Municipal Corporation Act and other acts applicableto civic bodies/ ULBs in Maharashtra

Legal instruments in Maharashtra

JNNURM – Infrastructure

SWM Budget – ULB/S SWM Budget

SJSRY Funds

Ministry of Micro and Small Enterprises

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

Finance options