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Promotion of best practices for Households in Solid Waste Management
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Together We Can Make It Happen!
“Reduce The Risk To Public Health Through Better Management of the Wastes We Generate”
A Presentation for Residents & Households
Household – Unit of Living
A household includes all the persons who occupy a housing unit.
Housing UnitA housing unit is a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
Separate living quarters are those in which the occupants live and eat separately from any other persons in the building and which have direct access from the outside of the building or through a common hall.
The occupants may be a single family, one person living alone, two or more families living together, or any other group of related or unrelated persons who share living arrangements.
Separate Living Quarters
Residential Areas
Groups of Households are usually found in residential colonies, apartments, gated communities and slums.
From Open Points and Community Bins to Door to Door Collection
Prior to the introduction of Door to Door Collection of Waste from Households, Households were expected to deposit the wastes generated by them in community bins. Most wastes never reached the bins . They were either destroyed in a fire or dumped along the roads and in open lands.
Door to Door Collection
To reduce risk to public health from improperly disposed wastes and to facilitate removal, collection and transport from source, door to door collection was introduced about a decade ago. This brought down littering, illegal dumping and open burning of wastes considerably in residential areas. Today, most households subscribe and avail door to door collection service.
Door to Door Collection
Door to Door Collection improved the efficiency in solid waste collection and transport as well as generated employment and source of livelihood to persons from the urban poor.
The source of income of persons engaged in primary collection of solid wastes is from collection of user fees from households to whom he provides collection service and proceeds from sale of recyclables recovered from mixed wastes usually segregated, separated and sorted at the time of collection from source and at the time of unloading his cart near the community bin.
Types of Wastes Generated at Households
Segregation of Waste
Dry – WetBiodegradable – Non-biodegradableGarbage - RubbishCompostable – Recyclable – Trash
Wastes could be categorized in over a hundred ways, but to begin with, we need to get in place at least a two bin system for segregation such as the top three classifications given above and handover whatever that doesn’t fit in like domestic hazardous and bio-medical wastes separately to the door to door waste collector or deposit them in appropriate community bins.
Benefits of Segregating Waste
Enables Easier, Cleaner, Safer and Optimal Resource Recovery
Reduces Waste that’s taken for Landfill
Reduces Time, Energy, Labor and Expense on Resource Recovery
Larger Quantity and Better Quality Resources can be Extracted from Waste
Facilitates Conversion of Waste into Resource
Reduces Dependence on Extraction of Depleting Natural Resources
Promotes 3Rs and Environmentally Safe Disposal
Reduces Costs, Improves Earnings and Promotes Sustainability
Helps in Keeping Our Locality Clean & Green
DOs & DON’Ts for Residents & Households
Segregate Wet & Dry WasteDo not mix Biodegradable with Non-biodegradable WasteDo not LitterDo not Burn Waste including LeavesPreach & Practice Reduce, Reuse, RecycleHelp Keep your Locality & City Clean & Green
Put off and discourage people from setting waste heaps on fire!