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Women and Waste are inseparable Women generate most of the kitchen wastes and dispose of waste from homes. Women bear the brunt of waste-related illnesses * caring for sick family members helping children who miss school managing with less if wage-earners are sick
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Building Consensus
June98: Interim Report: 400 city mgrs feedback Mar 99: Final Report, approved by all States Sept 99: Draft MSW Rules from Ministry of Environment Sept 00: Municipal Solid Waste (Management & Handling) Rules 2000
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Words to Remember
Clean Up and Flourish or Pile Up and Perish
The best way to keep streets clean is not to dirty them in the first place. Aim for cities without street bins.
Handle waste once only
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In India
In 35 cities of over 1-million population, dry waste levels are approaching Western levels of over 1kg per capita per day.
Waste-picking at street bins and dumps already supports 0.5% of large cities populations.
Women (and children) form percentage of the waste-pickers. a large
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Bio-Medical Hazards
In India we already have Bio-Medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules 1998 to keep such waste out of domestic waste.
Such rules must be promptly and scrupulously implemented.
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Best Practices.
* Ahmedabad: 4 or 6-bin handcarts or tricycles to avoid double-handling of waste Nasik: Trucks move from one street-corner to another to have a city without street wastebins Surat: Pin-point beats include bins on raised platforms, near drainage manholes Mumbai: Only wet waste lifted from hi-rises
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Best Practices.
SEWA: Weekly doorstep collection of dry waste by waste-picker womens co-op, with public-info help by Bank Officers union Pune : Union of women waste-pickers collects for a fee both dry waste for recycling + wet waste into city bins or compost pits Bangalore : Citywide policy of dry-wet waste separation at source, collected at doorstep by city sweepers or waste-transport contractors
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Street-food: Handcarts MUST have space for waste, and deposit it centrally at end of day.
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Decentralised Composting
>> Saves enormously on waste-transport costs
>> Reduces waste volumes for disposal by 90%
Where it is done
In garden strips along apartment walls, on terraces or in flower-pots or window-boxes In local parks, traffic islands, road dividers * In conventional large street-bins
In sewage-farm premises
On temple lands or private farms
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How it is done
Biomethanation in factory canteens Vermi-culture (needs animal-husbandry care) Aerobic wind-rows or checker-brick bins Anaerobic heaps at transfer-sites With or without composting bio-cultures
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Simple Composting
Use 5% cowdung solution or a bio-culture as compost starter. Make into heaps or wind-rows at least 1.5 metres high. Turn every 5-7 days. Add water to keep moist. Prevent overheating and smoke. Compost will be ready in 4 to 6 weeks.
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Developing-country waste is very low calorie Cost is 6-8 times higher than for composting. Control of air-pollution is very expensive, and necessary but rarely well-maintained Fails if debris and road-dust are in the waste Works against interests of recycling industry and thousands of waste-dependent workers
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Thank you
Questions, comments and suggestions are very welcome.
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