Garbage Management - Inputs on Root Causes
We have taken this topic from the Transform India with Modi circle and will continue it further in this circle due to relevance to Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
Given below are some of the Key Issues identified by you in regards to Garbage Management in the country. Kindly review them and if anything critical is missing, please add it as a comment. Otherwise, please identify Root Causes to these issues.
Once the Root Causes are known, we will work on identifying Solutions through a separate post. The compiled information can then be reviewed and acted upon.
Ministry of Urban Development
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Garbage management in India - Key Issues
1. Not enough dustbins in public areas
2. Garbage is burnt on roads which leads to health hazards
3. Garbage dumps are open creating a foul smell in nearby areas
4. Garbage overflows the collection bins
5. No segregation of wet and dry garbage
6. Increasing electronic waste
7. Indiscriminate use of plastic bags
8. Every building does not have a garbage disposal system of its own
9. Citizens' mentality of littering public places is a major issue
10. Government has no proper arrangement to sort out plastic and non-plastic garbage
11. People utilize the vacant places available near buildings or vacant plots to throw garbage
12. Municipal workers lack proper equipment to collect garbage, especially in semi urban and rural areas
13. Poor and illiterate people either have no means to dispose garbage or do not know why they should not throw garbage around the places where they live
14. Rag pickers also spread the garbage on the Roads
15. Hawkers leave the area unclean
16. Clogging of drainage system due to solid waste more