Transcript Waste Ventures_SessionV

East Coast Regional Consultation
on Climate Change Adaptation
Rajahmundry, AP, August 26-27, 2013
Session V: Cities & Climate Change
H.V.Gayitri
Climate Proofing with Solid Waste
Management
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The Issue
 Class I cities contribute 79% of urban waste
 Urban India producing 126,000 tons per day
 Mumbai alone emits 22000 tons per year as
pollutants into the atmosphere through open
burning and landfill fires
 Unsanitary landfilling pollutes ground, surface
water, emits green house gases, and pollutes the air
The Waste Venture view:
 At Waste Ventures we believe that Waste is Wealth
 We use waste to change lives of the most
marginalised communities
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Our Offer
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Collection of waste at
door step
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Segregation of waste
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Daily reliable service
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Weather Neutral
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Women / elderly
friendly
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Take waste from
households directly to
secondary collection
to maintain clean
streets
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Segregated waste at
dump site
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Desired standard
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Best quality compost
Segregation of
garbage
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Resource optimization
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Recycling of plastic
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Clean bins &
surrounding
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Prevent of generation
of toxic material
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Acceptable to use
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Value recovered
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Garden waste
collected properly
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Workers in safe work
environment.
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Healthy surrounding
for households
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Human interface
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Best quality compost
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Sale of glass, paper,
metal, etc.
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Recycled plastic used
as alternative to
virgin raw materials in
manufacturing plants
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Increased life of dump
site
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Challenges
Reasonably good policies- but far
from satisfactory delivery.
Lack of awareness
/regressive mind-sets
Lack of political will
Lack of understanding of what is required to
implement successfully
(India is littered with failed SWM initiatives)
We design and test
strategies to
address these
challenges in our
Learning Labs
Learnings can be
transplanted from/
to any part of the
state/ country
Insights are relevant
for both public
sector policy Folie
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private sector
enterprise
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Infinite Opportunities
We have :
–7 Mega Cities
–28 Metros
–968 cities with population more than 50,000
And hardly any of these have any visible/viable SWM
We could bring about a social revolution by
empowering the poorest of the poor and the most
marginalised communities of this country.
Change the quality of life of 79% of the population
of this country by ensuring cleaner air, cleaner
water and a healthier earth.
We break even within 18 months and achieve a 28%
profit margin by year 5. This is important to attract
others to adopt our model
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We need to do something now!
In a BAU scenario Class I & II Cities in India will be generating 54 million tons
per year by 2021
That is enough waste to bury the entire 110 square km area of Rajahmundry
in garbage piled up to your waists
Just two years ago, we were generating 35 million tons per year and within a
decade waste generation will be increasing by a little more than 50%
In a BAU scenario, India will not
be able to dispose these wastes
properly and productively –
UNLESS-We do something NOW!!
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www.wasteventures.org
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