I remember reading somewhere, two
years back, about a summit of mayors of 151 cities of world, to address and
discuss the most important issues of their cities. And it was concluded, that
the second most important issue of the cities, urban areas around the world,
is 'Solid Waste'. The first, being unemployment.
This is alarming...! The fact, that
the issue of environmental protection and conservation, makes it to top three
alarming issues, is a great challenge to environmental engineers and planners
around the world, who are continuously trying to make the lives of urban
dwellers better.
India took a major step in addressing
this issue in right way, when Minister of State (Independent Charge) of
Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar,
on 05-April-2016 announced 'Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016'. The
word file of the his press address, containing the vitals of new rules is
below.
It is important to note that these
rules, are revised after sixteen years. The most important and noteworthy point
in these rules, is, that the importance of 'segregation',
or source segregation is recognised and has been
made mandatory.
As per the rules, now the segregation
at source is not only mandatory, but the same is responsibility of generators.
Every household, is now required to segregate their solid waste in three bins,
with different colours. These are Green, White and Black.
These are fixed colours and one cannot change it.
The types of waste, and colour to be used for the
same is as under….
Colour
|
Solid Waste
Type
|
Green
|
Kitchen waste
Restaurant Waste
Fruits Graden Waste |
White
|
Plastic Waste
Metal Waste
Paper Waste Non hazardous electronic items |
Black
|
CFL tubes
Expired medicines
Broken mercury products
Used batteries
Medical injections Used tins of pesticides etc. |
For detailed information on colours and other
vital information on rules, refer the pdf shared below. in English and simple
Gujarati language as well.Please note that the pdf is based on information
available of government website and other official sources.
The local authorities, SMC in case of Surat, are
given time of one year in the rules. So, by April 2017, it is mandatory for all
of us, to have these three bins outside our houses and begin source segregation
of out household waste.
SMC has already initiated many programmes and
schemes for the citizens, of which the details, I will keep on sharing as it
becomes available to me.
Himanshu Padhya
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