Waste Segregation

1. Waste segregation
sorting and collection

2. Mumbai population
INCREASING
Waste generation
10,000 MT/Day
Only three
existing landfill
sites are nearing
the end of their
operational life
1,27,486 metric tones of waste generated
daily in India in 2011-12
Waste Generation

3. Spending Pattern
Collection Transportation Disposal/Treatment

4. Huge
Transportation
Burden

5. Major challenge to MCGM
Shortage of Landfills

6. Though we are facing problem of waste

7. Waste collection process
Primary
Collection
Secondary
Collection
Transportation

8. This is what many clean homes do?

9. What is need of the hour
Reduce the waste ,Reuse ,Recycle
Segregation of garbage at source into dry
and wet waste
Compost wet waste

10. DECENTRALISATION OFW
ASTE
A
T SOURCE
SEGREGA
TE
W
ASTE
REDUCE,REUSE,
RECYCLE
COMPOST OF
W
ASTE

11. Take a Little efforts segregate waste at
source

12. Segregation of Waste
keeping wet and dry wastes separately, so that dry can be
recycled and wet waste can be composted.
REUSE
WET DRY
• Biodegradable
• Coconut shells
• Vegetable wastes ,Fruit
wastes Wood,Egg shells
,Nails,Hair Leaves ,T
ea
leaves ,Soiled cotton /
tissue ,Cooked food waste
• Dust,Bones
Recyclable
Paper, plastics, metal, glass, rubber,
thermocol, Styrofoam, fabric, leather,
rexine, wood – anything that can be
kept for an extended period without
decomposing
RECYCLE
COMPOST
/PROCESS

13. Waste Segregation
plastics
Paper
metal
leather
Thermocol
Pet bottels
Tetrapacks
Tins
Wrappers
Sanitary items
Wood
Glass

15. Best practice in Waste Prevention and
Minimization
• Segregation of garbage at source into dry and wet waste.
• Compost organic waste

16. Recycle
Treatment or
reprocessing
Suitable for
subsequent
re-use
Recycling

17. Benefits of Recycling:
• Conserves resources for our children’s future.
• Prevents emissions of many greenhouses gases and
water pollutants.
• Saves energy.
• Supplies valuable raw materials to industry.
• Creates jobs.
• Stimulates the development of greener technologies.
• Reduces the need for new landfills and incinerators.

18. THANK
YOU!