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3 Open waste breeds half-wild dogs that bite kids, spread rabies and attack village livestock
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Community Based Waste Management:
Some Key Experiences
Mrs Almitra H Patel, MemberSupreme Court Committee for Solid Waste
Management in Class 1 Cities in India
Ranchi, 16.11.2002
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The best way to keep streets clean is not to dirty them at all
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Open waste breeds half-wild dogs that bite kids, spread rabies
and attack village livestock
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What is the answer? First, minimise all wastes :
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Park and Garden wastes can be composted on-site or used as fuel
or sent to cremation grounds
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Managing all wastes at home is best. Keep kitchen waste
separate, and compost it at home
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Use potted plants or plant beds : waste put onto soil in thin layers decomposes soon and is fertiliser
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Apartment bldgs can compost their wastes in very little space
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Planter-composting over drains beautifies the street while
keeping leachate off the road
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Vermi-bins can beautify pavements but should not make
them too narrow to walk on
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Houses on a street can use common compost bins
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Common compost-tanks for a moholla need air and drainage
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Roadside dustbins are always dirty. Remove them and grow a garden
in that spot to keep it clean
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Moholla waste has to be collected door-to-door at fixed
times
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Handcarts can be of many types, but all should have bins to avoid
manual loading of waste
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It helps to have a shelf and storage space for sorted dry
waste
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“Dry” recyclable waste can be collected weekly in larger carts
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Moholla or City must provide space for Collecting and Storing
“dry” recyclable wastes
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Also space to collect truckloads of dry waste for shipment out
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Otherwise it will encroach on roads or even riverbeds
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Market waste is easy to compost
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Use space in Pumping Stations
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Larger quantities of waste are harder to handle
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and need costly mechanised equipment for turning & sieving
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Unturned dumps cause terrible pollution; leachate ruins soil & water
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Bulk wastes are composted with the help of cowdung-water + rock phosphate or low-cost biocultures
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Form waste into “wind-rows” and spray with bioculture
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Proper moisture control and turning is essential
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Such compost is used by farmers and returns nutrients to the soil
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But plastic wastes are a major problem in composting and need very costly machinery to remove
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Thermocole and plastic carrybags can be recycled if kept separate
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Citizens can help by keeping “dry” waste out of kitchen waste
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This is the law of the land now: daily doorstep collection of wet wastes for composting, dry wastes given separately