1. Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection and
Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste (SACODI)
Asia Pro Eco Programme
Promoting sustainable solutions for the Environment
between Europe and Asia
The Asia Pro Eco Programme is one of a series of
initiatives by the European Union designed to promote
mutual benefit and understanding between the Member
States and Asia. The Programme aims to improve
environmental performance and technology partnership
in economic sectors, and promote sustainable
responsible investment.

2. Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection and
Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste (SACODI)
The Network Partners:
• Technical University Dresden
Germany
• Environment Support Group, Bangalore
India
• Can Tho University
Vietnam
• University of Wales, Cardiff
UK
• Bremen University of Applied Sciences
Germany

3. Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection and
Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste (SACODI)
OBJECTIVES
Overall objectives
• Promotion of environmental awareness
• Improvement of environmental quality and the health situation in Asian countries
• Change in the behaviour of those who generate hazardous waste in a way that they
treat, transport and dispose it in an environmentally safe manner
• Promotion of more resource-efficient products, processes and services (including
waste minimising technologies and optimised product design, reuse and recycling)
Facilitation of collaboration between countries of the EU and ASEAN member
countries by transfer and exchange of knowledge through networked experience
Specific objectives
• Provision of detailed, up to date and practical information about hazardous waste
management
• Development of technical guidelines which helps to choose between different
technologies to process and deposit dangerous and hazardous waste and to find an
environmentally sustainable solution which is also economical and socially
appropriate
• Development of an training pack which helps improve understanding of the dangers
associated with hazardous waste and the urgent need for proper handling, collection
and disposal

4. Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection
and Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste (SACODI)
“Hazardous waste”
means any waste
which by reason of
any of its physical,
chemical, reactive,
toxic, flammable,
explosive or corrosive
characteristics cause
s danger or is likely to
cause danger to
health or
environment, whether
alone or when in
contact with other
wastes or
substances.

5. Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection and
Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste (SACODI)
Sources
• Industrial - Acids,
alkalis, Caustic
substances, solvents,
heavy metals, dyes,
oils, paints, etc.
• Household - Batteries,
paints, Cleaner
solvents, detergents,
used drugs etc
• Agricultural -
Pesticides,
Insecticides, Fluorides
etc
• Medical - Needles,
scalpels, Sharps,
glassware, old drugs
etc

6. Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection and
Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste (SACODI)
Legal provisions for Hazardous Waste Management
• Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
• Hazardous Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1989
• Environment Impact Assessment Notification, `1994
• Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001
• Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000
• Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2003
• Recycled Plastics Manufacture and Usage Rules, 1999
• Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemical Rules,
1989
• Chemical Accidents (Emergency Planning, Preparedness, and
Response) Rules, 1996
• Rules for the Manufacture, Use, Import, Export and Storage of
Hazardous Micro-Organisms Genetically Engineered Organisms
or Cells, 1989
• Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991
• Others

7. Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection and
Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste (SACODI)
International Conventions Applicable in India
• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of
Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, March 1989
• Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: The United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development, June 1992
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 2001
• The International Maritime Organization's International Convention
on the Prevention of Pollution of Ships, 1973 (MARPOL)
• International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships'
Ballast Water and Sediments, 13 February 2004
• Agenda 21 of the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development (Rio Declaration), 1992
• Others

8. Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection and
Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste (SACODI)
• SACODI
Kick Off
meeting in
Vietnam,
included
visits to
metal
casting
units,
fertilizer
and
detergent
Industries

9. Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection and
Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste (SACODI)
Hazardous waste Management
Practice in Germany was
studied as part of the second
meeting of partners at the
Technical Univ. Dresden. This
meeting involved site visits to
paper mills, e-waste processing
facilities and metal polishing
units.

10. Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection and
Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste (SACODI)
CASE STUDIES
KARNATAKA

11. WEST COAST PAPER MILLS
A five decade old
paper mills that
continues to pollute
with impunity
destroying the
biodiversity in Kali
River and adversely
impacting peoples’
lives and livelihoods

12. RAICHUR THERMAL POWER PLANT
• The process of coal combustion results in fly
ash. Fly ash disposal requires large quantities
of land, water, and energy. Its fine particles, if
not managed well, by virtue of their
weightlessness, become airborne. Huge
quantities pose challenging problems, in the
form of land usage, health hazards, and
environmental dangers.
• Present-day utilization of fly ash in India is at
its infancy, and only an insignificant amount is
being put to proper use or disposal. Also, very
little is invested in most R&D with applications
not being is commercially viable.
• Fly ash has disastrous consequences on life
and environment. Its known adverse impacts
include allergic bronchitis, silicosis, and
asthma. Besides, fly ash contaminates surface
and ground water adversely affecting aquatic
life. A key threat from fly ash is the release of
large quantities of mercury, a hazardous heavy
metal that affects the central nervous system.
• RTPS practices are being documented to
provide comparative technologies that could
alleviate the huge problem of fly ash that it
handles.

13. HANUMAN DYEING AND WEAVING
INDUSTRY
• Silk manufacture involves a
variety of processes that
involve the use of
hazardous chemicals and
their careful disposal
• Significant improvements
have made dyes more safer
today, yet their breakdown
products offer a major risk
to human health and the
environment.
• The careful disposal of dyes
and sludge is extremely
important in the
management of hazardous
wastes created in silk
production.
• The lack of proper disposal
facility forces industry to
store the dried sludge which
contains hazardous
chemicals in its facility.

14. SOLARIS- Caustic Soda Industry
• Karwar: The area has been
receiving highly reactive and
toxic chemical wastes from the
caustic soda factory for over 20
years already.
• The factory is still dumping toxic
and corrosive waste into the sea
in an almost ingenious manner
and there are unpublished
reports of very high mercury
contamination in the region.
• Given the fact that the area
receives very heavy rainfall most
of this toxic waste gets washed
into nearby rivers and the sea.
• Caustic soda factories are by
and large shut down in the
industrialised world.

15. Mavallipura- An illegal Dump site
• Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP - city’s
municipal corporation) has been illegally and
unscientifically dumping over 200 truckloads of
waste every day since May 2003 on leased
private land at Mavallipura, north of Bangalore.
• Villagers who have been fighting this illegal dump
have suffered serious health impacts.
• The leachates from this illegal dump are slowly
but surely finding their way into the Arkavathi
river, which provides about 25% of Bangalore’s
drinking water needs.
• ESG has worked with the affected communities
systematically and this has resulted in the KSPCB
filing a criminal petition against the farmer who
has leased the land. ESG is now working to
expand the scope of this case to also include
BMP as a defendant.
• Water used for drinking and agriculture are found
seriously contaminated including by heavy metals.
• Lack of segregation of waste at source is a major
cause for large volumes of garbage creating such
problems.

16. Development of Guidelines for Segregation, Collection and
Safe Disposal of Hazardous waste (SACODI)
Hazardous Waste Landfill Site
Industries in the State produce an enormous
quantity of hazardous wastes,
approximately about 80,000 tonnes
every year. This has to be safely
disposed to prevent environmental and
health hazards..
There aren’t any legal hazardous waste
disposal sites, yet. One is coming up at
Dobbespet near Nelamangala, North of
Bangalore and the work has been much
delayed due to various legal wrangles
and local resistance.
Till the setting up of the treatment facility,
the industries should store the wastes
in their premises safely. But not all
industries follow the rules. Some
industries illegally dump the wastes in
private lands, water bodies, and near
the highways.