Public Private Participation in Solid Waste Management

1. Public Private Participation
in Solid Waste Management

2. The Polluter Pays!
Who is the Polluter?
Individual - Institutional

3. What happens when the Polluter
disposes waste without having to
pay for it?

4. Who Pays when the Polluter gets away
without Paying?
Local Government
God
Environment
Neighbor

5. International & National legislation
concerning management of wastes (MSW)
Directive Principles in the Constitution
Environment Protection Act, 1986
Chapter 21 of Agenda 21, UN Conference on
Sustainable Development, Rio De Janeiro
Kyoto Protocol
Municipal Solid Waste Management and
Handling Rules, 2000

6. PUBLIC DOMAIN
to
PRIVATE DOMAIN
Other Sectors where this has
happened:
Oil
Telecom
Pharmaceuticals
Engineering

7. WASTE MANAGEMENT –
From being exclusively in the
Public Domain to emerging
Public Private Participation

8. In spite of formulation of MSW
Management & Handling Rules,
2000 over a decade ago
It is common to see heaps of waste
being burnt in the open
Wastes are not segregated at source
Wastes are not being disposed in an
environmentally safe manner

11. Components of a Waste Management
Process:
Consumption
Generation
Segregation
Collection
Storage
Compaction/Reduction
Transportation
Resource Recovery
Disposal

12. Hierarchy of Waste Management Options:
Reduce
Reuse
Recycling of Paper, Plastic, Metal, Glass etc.,
Compost and Organic Manure Production
Bio-mass to Energy & Soil Conditioners
Waste to Energy & Incineration
Landfill

13. Nature of Public Private Participation PPP:
Consultancy
EPC – Engineering, Procurement, Construction
BOT – Build, Operate, Transfer
BOOT – Build, Own, Operate, Transfer

14. Key benefit from Public Private
Participation PPP:
Government can avoid getting bogged
down with operational issues by
outsourcing operational activity to private
sector while concentrating on core
function of governance and be a
regulatory and enforcement authority

15. Economics of Waste Management
Economics when waste is segregated at source (cleaner
recovery of recyclables enhancing both volume and value of
recovered resources)
Economics of handling waste as a single stream, when they are
not segregated at source (recovery for recycling, composting etc.,
from mixed wastes will be lower and expensive particularly from
daily receipts of large volumes at a centralized facility and
increase in quantities taken up for landfill - driven to choose the
last option in hierarchy without optimal reduction through
resource recovery)
Management of wastes as non-profit or loss making activity as a
welfare measure in the interest of public health with source of
funds for activity through taxes, grants etc., can only be taken up
by government
It is not possible for private sector to sustain in business when it
does not break even or make profit from business/activity

16. Activities in which Government should seek
private participation
Sensitization and awareness creation
Primary Collection
Transportation
Management of facilities such as transfer station,
treatment and processing, land filling
Biomass & Waste to Energy projects
Recycling
Turnkey Projects – end to end

19. THANK YOU