Waste Management Statistic in India

Third World Countries are resource-conserving and frugal.

• 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 a large percentage of the waste-pickers.

• We sell newspapers, bottles and tins to doorstep waste-buyers and re-use a lot, discarding little.
•  We generate only 50-100 gms of non-biodegradable waste per capita per day.
•  Sadly, this small ecological footprint is seen as “backward” or under-developed.

Some Best WM Practices in Other Locations in India

 In  Many cities, Private groups are doing doorstep collection on payment .Everywhere in India , SLUMS are the most cooperative.  419 slums in Mumbai have Take-away-bin system
 

Calcutta:  80% house-to-house collection using regular Municipal staff and usual wheelbarrows

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 waste-bins

Surat:  Pin-point beats include bins on raised platforms, near drainage manholes

Mumbai: Only wet waste lifted from hi-rises

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

Coorg: District cleanup by school-kids bringing their dry waste to school weekly for purchase by waste-buyers. Funds used classwise for Eco-Clubs.

Calcutta: 500,000 bookmarks with year’s calendar and civic messages .Kids make pretty wall-bags for dry waste
 

SEWA:  Weekly doorstep collection of dry waste by waste-picker women’s co-op, with public-info help by Bank Officers’ union