This document discusses socio-economic issues related to waste management in India. It notes that rapid urbanization and migration to cities has contributed to waste management problems. It describes the socio-economic profile of informal waste workers as having low incomes, poor working conditions, and health issues. It emphasizes the importance of public education programs to raise awareness of different waste management techniques and encourage participation. Non-governmental organizations play a role in supporting informal waste sector workers and building capacity for waste collection, sorting, and recycling.

1. SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES
IN WASTE MANAGEMENT

2. Why there is such
kind issues arise ???
?

3. POPULATION

4. Census of India, 2001
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200
400
600
800
1000
1200
total rural urban
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persons male female

5.  migration to urban areas,
 lack of sufficient funds

6. Socio Economic Profile of Informal
Workers
 Highly weak social community.
 Extremely unorganized and scattered sector.
 The migrants of below poverty line or due to unemployment.
 Income levels are extremely subjective to age and kind of job.
 Working conditions bad.
 Health issues and injuries (cuts, medical wastes, animals, chemical poisoning) are
frequent due to nature of job.

7. Role of public educations programs/plan and
public involvement

9. Awareness
 Learning something new
 New idea
 Different way of handling waste

10. Method of publicity
 News releases
 Newsletters articles
 TV & radio
 Posters
 Speeches
 Public service announcements

11.  Education in schools is the best way of raising awareness .
 At the same time ,program developed for children should be sensitive to cultural

12. Interest
 Waste management professionals
 Political officials
 Educator who have sufficient information to share – different aspect of waste
management such as manageable composting ,biogas productions ,recycling
potentials etc.,
 Voluntary and mandatory programs.

13. Contd..
 Telephone service or e-mail communications - effective tools
 Social marketing

14. Evaluation
 Individual decide whether to participate or not in the waste management program.
 Research studies –USA have shown that only 50% participations at initial.

15. Trial
 Individual try the program or they participate in the new activity.
 Eg: different ways of waste reductions .
 biogas productions.
 recycling and reuse.

16. Adoptions
 If the educations program has been well planned & implemented public
participations and support will continue to grow.

17. Role of NGO
 Issues like health, income, environment and living conditions are supported by the
Non-government Organizations in India.
 NGOs are also being involved by the government and other agencies in building
capacity of the informal sector for
 collection,
 sorting,
 recycling/processing and / or next dealing.

19. Ref
 Ali, Mansoor, ‘Micro-enterprise Development for Primary Collection of Solid Waste’,
Loughborough University, U.K,
http://www.gdrc.org/uem/waste/swmconfpaper.html, 1997.
 Beukering Pieter van, Edwin Schoon and Ajit Mani, ‘The Informal Sector and Waste
Paper Recovery in Bombay’, CREED Working Paper Series No 5, International
Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, June 1996.
 Office of the Registrar General, ‘Census of India’, New Delhi: Ministry of Home
Affairs. http://www.censusindia.net/, 2001.
 Report of the High-Powered Committee on Urban Solid Waste Management in
India, Planning Commission, 1995.

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