How to clean up in easy step.
We need to do few things, simply:
At household level, tell people to divide trash in three categories - dry, wet, mixed and make it compulsory. The dry can be collected on periodic basis by radiwala. Wet should be buried in building, society or mohalla ground, this is called composting. Mixed waste should be given to corporation, there are high pressure machines that can separate the organic and inorganic matter, corporations like mumbai can easily afford these machines, reduce dumping.
Safai walas within society's and buildings are unorganized, get them licensed by corporation, educate them about waste segration and proper collection and disposal of garbage and the above method, so as to make people conform to it.
Corporation and Railways not picking up mountains of trash in slum areas and both sides of tracks, especially in Mumbai, where it's clean in other areas, this will be a herculean task - education + proper waste management in these areas.
Public garbage collection dabbas on roads overflow and cause more nuisance rather than ensuring hygiene, dabba overflowing should be looked into.
People in local and outstation trains throw garbage on tracks. Also garbage collected by railways in trains is dumped instead of proper disposal.
Ban production, selling and consumption of paan, spitting and red stains are nuisance and health hazard.
End to end flow chart of waste management should be prepared by government and all agencies should be made to comply with it.
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At household level, tell people to divide trash in three categories - dry, wet, mixed and make it compulsory. The dry can be collected on periodic basis by radiwala. Wet should be buried in building, society or mohalla ground, this is called composting. Mixed waste should be given to corporation, there are high pressure machines that can separate the organic and inorganic matter, corporations like mumbai can easily afford these machines, reduce dumping.
Safai walas within society's and buildings are unorganized, get them licensed by corporation, educate them about waste segration and proper collection and disposal of garbage and the above method, so as to make people conform to it.
Corporation and Railways not picking up mountains of trash in slum areas and both sides of tracks, especially in Mumbai, where it's clean in other areas, this will be a herculean task - education + proper waste management in these areas.
Public garbage collection dabbas on roads overflow and cause more nuisance rather than ensuring hygiene, dabba overflowing should be looked into.
People in local and outstation trains throw garbage on tracks. Also garbage collected by railways in trains is dumped instead of proper disposal.
Ban production, selling and consumption of paan, spitting and red stains are nuisance and health hazard.
End to end flow chart of waste management should be prepared by government and all agencies should be made to comply with it.
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Actually it is a mistake to look for solutions outside the house or the business places like restaurants offices etc. Its best to find a solution such that it does not have to go out of the house or office and is eliminated there itself. If a group is formed to work on such a solution then the problems shall be really solved. It should be generated into a value added product which can be used at home or sold in the market for others to use. One such suggestion on which work was started in Japan is to make a small home plasma reactor which generates producer gas which can be connected to the stove to use or filled in a gas cylinder and used. The residue left is just 0.5% of the total, and everything can be cleared since the temperatures reached are 10,000 deg cent and more. Even heavy metals like gold silver etc are collected separately as metals. Government should invest in such projects not at one place but in all the technology institutes to find solutions with presentations every three months. This is what NASA has been doing for decades. more
Dec 21
First educate municipalities and their staff as well as garbage handlers - allow the information to percolate down to house holds. Then ask them to separate the waste themselves which should be made mandatory. Lot to be known, Imparted and trained to make it work. Without such efforts nothing happens more
Dec 20
Suggestion is good. Let us all separate wet (organic) and dry household waste. Government is already asking citizens to do so. Wet waste collected by municipal body will be used for compost or energy generation, while the dry one will be land-filled or whatever. Atleast this can be done by residents, isn't? more
Dec 20
If safaiwalas become organized, co-operative societies' main concern is their rates will rise steeply and members will have to contribute more, plus safaiwalas will utilize this to fulfil their unrealistic demands and take them for a ride by organized bands, strikes etc. (even without being organized, they are sometimes creating problems!). How can these concerns be addressed reasonably? more
Dec 19
