Solving mumbai's garbage problem
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An argument against indiscriminate development promoting personal motorized transport. Hansel DSouza is an activist who has been piloting urban issues in Mumbai, India. He is also a professional corporate trainer, marketing consultant and professor of management studies.
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Solving mumbai's garbage problem
- 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