Lok Sabha Question No. 98 (STARRED), answered on 2020-02-07
Subject: Waste Management
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Sumedhanand Saraswati

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA

STARRED QUESTION No. *98 TO BE ANSWERED ON 07/02/2020

## Waste Management

## *98. SHRI SUMEDHANAND SARASWATI:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  is  aware  of  the  challenges  faced  by  the  Panchayats  with regard to waste management and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the Government proposes to impart training to members of Panchayats for effective management of waste and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) whether the Government is aware of any specific use of waste which could be made possible with the aid of technology and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI PRAKASH JAVADEKAR)

- (a) to (c): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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## Statement  referred  to  in  reply  to  parts  (a)  to  (c)  of  Lok  Sabha  Starred Question  No.  98  to  be  answered  on  Friday,  the  7 th February,  2020  on 'Waste Management' by Shri Sumedhanand Saraswati.

(a) In  order  to  ensure  environmentally  sound  management  of  solid  waste  in  the country,the  Ministry,in  supersession  of  Municipal  Solid  Waste  (Management  and Handling)  Rules,  2000,  has  notified  Solid  Waste  Management  (SWM)  Rules, 2016.The  Rules enumerate, inter alia, the duties and responsibilities of local authorities, village panchayats of census towns and urban agglomerations.

(b) Local bodies and village panchayats in association with the Village Panchayat or  Rural  Development  Department  in  the  States,  have  been  mandated  to  ensure compliance of various provisions of the SWM Rules 2016. Local bodies are mandated to provide training on solid waste management to waste-pickers and waste collectors. Capacity building of local bodies or panchayats in managing solid waste, segregation and transportation or processing of waste is to be undertaken by the State Governments  by  involving  self-help  groups  and  civil  societies  at  village  panchayat level.

(c) Regarding  specific  use  of  waste  with  aid  of  technology,  local  bodies  in State/UTs are responsible for setting up of  material recovery facilities with sufficient space for  sorting  of  recyclable  materials;  collect  waste  from  vegetable,  fruit,flower, meat, poultry and fish market and promote setting up of decentralized compost plant or  bio-methanation  plant  at  suitable  locations;  facilitate  construction,  operation  and maintenance of solid waste processing facilities and associated infrastructure including the following:

- i. bio-methanation, microbial composting, vermi-composting, anaerobic digestion or any other appropriate processing for bio-stabilization of biodegradable wastes;
- ii. waste  to  energy  processes  including  refused  derived  fuel  for  combustible fraction  of  waste  or  supply  as  feedstock  to  solid  waste-based  power  plants  or cement kilns;

The  Rules  stipulate  specific  criteria  to  encourage  the  use  of  high  calorific contents in solid waste to energy plants. Non-recyclable waste having calorific value of 1500 K/cal/kg or more shouldbe utilized for generating energy only. Further, high calorific wastes prescribed to be utilized for co-processing in cement or thermal power plants.

Plastic waste also forms a part of solid waste and key technologies prescribedare (i) utilization of plastic waste in road construction, (ii) Co-processing of plastic waste in Cement Kilns, (iii) Conversion of plastic waste into liquid RDF (Oil) and (iv) Disposal of plastic waste through Plasma Pyrolysis Technology (PPT).

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