The Zero-Garbage Mumbai Action Plan by Hansel D'Souza aims to establish a long-term solution for waste management in Mumbai, which produces 7200 tons of garbage daily. The plan includes enforcing segregation of waste, implementing a structured collection system, and promoting composting at institutional and community levels. Key strategies involve creating composting sites, recycling dry waste, and incentivizing composting to mitigate the environmental impact and improve public health.

1. Zero-Garbage Mumbai
Action Plan By
Hansel D’Souza
Objective:
Long Term Garbage Solution

2. What’s Garbage?
Something you did’nt eat!
The start of an epidemic
Food for rats, roaches, mosquitoes
An invitation to ragpickers
A banquet for stray dogs
A road block for cars/pedestrians
Death knell for mangroves & landfills

3. Stunning Facts
Mumbai produces 7200 tons daily
BMC spends Rs. 14 lakhs daily on
collection
Mumbai has 6,300 collection points
Mumbai’s 3 dumping grounds
Gorai - 15 hectares
Deonar - 1,011 hectares
Mulund - 25 hectares
will be saturated by 2010 !

4. Garbage Contains
Organic matter 37.5%
Sand & mud 35.0%
Paper, cartons 15.0%
Metals 0.80%
Plastic 0.75%
Glass 0.40%
Others 10.55%

5. Step 1
Enforce Segregation
Using ALM’s for communication
Providing ND’s for enforcement
Implement Sec 368 BMC Act

6. Step 2
Gate Collection
Set Daily Collection Schedule
Allot 3 Compactors per Corporator Ward
Spray EM solution in Compactor itself

7. Step 3
Identify Garden Plots
Parks, gardens at least 3 in each Corporator
ward
Assign Disposal squads for each
Construct composting pits enough to handle 5
tons per day at each site
Train Staff to use EM technology

8. Diagram of Park Composting

9. Step 4
Dry Waste Centres
One Dry waste centre for each Corporator
ward to coordinate disposal
Tie up with ragpickers association
Arrange for medical waste disposal
Arrange for shell shredding
Debris disposal
Shredder for leaves, grass etc.

10. Step 5
Make it mandatory for institutions, housing
soc, to compost own garbage
All new structures must include
composting pits in plans
Give incentives to existing societies to
compost (2% discount in property tax)
Impose garbage collection cess on those
not composting

11. Key Drivers
E M Technology to remove odour
Saving in transportation to dump sites
Break bulk for composting
Garbage split into 681 small lots
Manure for garden plots
Dumping grounds saved

12. Net Result
No more rotting garbage heaps
No pests, stray dogs, etc.
No ragpickers haunting street corners
Save our landfills
Recycle dry garbage
Compost wet garbage
Green Mumbai