This document provides information on household waste management. It discusses (1) what constitutes a household and housing unit, (2) how door-to-door collection has improved waste management over open community bins, and (3) the benefits of source segregation of waste into categories like wet/dry and biodegradable/non-biodegradable. Segregation facilitates optimal resource recovery from waste and promotes sustainability. The document encourages residents to properly segregate their waste and not litter or burn waste.

1. 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

2. Household – Unit of Living
A household includes all the persons who occupy a housing unit.
Housing Unit
A 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.

3. Separate Living Quarters
Separate living quarters are The occupants may be a
those in which the occupants single family, one person
live and eat separately from any living alone, two or more
other persons in the building families living together, or
and which have direct access any other group of related or
from the outside of the building unrelated persons who share
or through a common hall. living arrangements.
Residential Areas
Groups of Households are usually found in residential
colonies, apartments, gated communities and slums.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Types of Wastes Generated at Households

8. Segregation of Waste
Dry – Wet
Biodegradable – Non-biodegradable
Garbage - Rubbish
Compostable – 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.

9. 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

10. Source Segregation Helps in Resource Recovery

11. DOs & DON’Ts for Residents & Households
Segregate Wet & Dry Waste
Do not mix Biodegradable with Non-biodegradable Waste
Do not Litter
Do not Burn Waste including Leaves
Preach & Practice Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Help Keep your Locality & City Clean & Green
Put off and discourage people
from setting waste heaps on fire!