Lok Sabha Question No. 4553 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-19
Subject: Generation of Waste
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Kirit Premjibhai Solanki

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No.  4553

TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.07.2019

## Generation of Waste

## 4553. DR. (PROF.) KIRIT PREMJIBHAI SOLANKI:

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

- (a) the total quantum of solid waste such as plastic waste, e-waste and hazardous waste generated in the country annually, State/UT-wise;
- (b) the total quantum of such waste recycled and/or reused;
- (c) the total quantum of waste that is deposited in landfills;
- (d) whether  the  Government  has  taken  any  steps  to  encourage  the  recycling  of  waste and/or reduce the quantum of waste generated; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI BABUL SUPRIYO)

(a) to (c) As per Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Annual Report for the year 2016-17, it is estimated that the total generation of solid waste is approximately 1,50,000 T/day. Out of the total, approximately 90% (1,35000 MT/day) is collected. Out of the collected waste, 20% (27,000 MT/day) is processed and the remaining 80% (10,8000MT/day) is going to the dump sites.  Central  Pollution  Control  Board (CPCB)  conducted study in 60 major cities of India and estimated that around 4059 ton per day of plastic waste is generated from these cities. Extrapolating this it is estimated that around 25,940 ton per day of plastic waste is generated in the country. The CPCB in 2005 estimated 1.47 lakh ton of e-waste in the country. As per the United Nations University report, 'The Global E-Waste Monitor 2017', 20 lakh ton of ewaste  generation  was  reported  in  the  country  in  2016.  As  per  information  available  with CPCB 69,414 MT of e-waste was collected, dismantled and recycled during 2017-18. The inventory of e-waste generation state wise has not been completed for all the states and only six states namely Goa, J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Punjab have completed the inventory of e-waste generation. Quantity of hazardous waste generation in  the  country  was  around  7.17  million  ton  during  2016-17,  of  which  3.68  million  ton (49.46%)  was  recycled.  The  quantum  of  waste  deposited  into  landfills  have  not  been estimated. The state wise generation of solid waste, hazardous waste, e-waste and city wise generation of plastic waste is enclosed at Annex I.

(d)&(e) For sound management of various type of wastes, the Government had comprehensively revised and notified various waste management rules in 2016 on hazardous waste, E-waste, solid waste, plastic waste, construction & demolition waste and bio-medical waste. The rules emphasize on recycling and material recovery and provide for technological options for management of such wastes. The recycler/ operator/ generator may opt for any recycling/  resource  recovery  technological  options,  after  due  evaluation  by  prescribed authorities viz. State Pollution Control Boards/Committees, Central Pollution Control Board, Local Bodies.

CPCB has published guidelines for environmentally sound recycling of commonly recyclable hazardous wastes (such as used/waste oil, zinc dross, copper dross, used lead acid battery, etc.  CPCB  has  prepared  52  Standard  Operating  Procedures  (SOPs)  for  utilization  of  40 different types of hazardous wastes after conducting trial runs.

The  CPCB  in  its  guidelines  for  collection,  segregation  &  disposal  of  plastic  waste  has prescribed for technological solutions including utilization of plastic waste in road construction, co-processing in cement kilns, conversion of plastic waste into refused derived fuel (RDF) and disposal of plastic waste through Plasma Pyrolysis Technology. Similarly, the Biomedical Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 prescribe segregation, collection, pretreatment  followed  by  channelization  of  waste  plastic,  glass  and  metals  to  authorized recyclers as well as disposal of infectious incinerable bio-medical waste through incineration.

Further,  the  Ministry  of  Electronics  and  Information  Technology  (MeitY)  is  undertaking research  and  development  projects  for  e-waste  recycling/recovery  and  has  set  up  the following demonstration/ pilot projects:

-  Demonstration plant at Bangalore on 'Environmentally Sound Methods for Recovery of  Metals  from  Printed  Circuit  Boards  (PCBs)  -  Phase  II'  operated  by  Centre  for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), Hyderabad and E-Parisara, Bengaluru.
-  Pilot  plant  at  National  Metallurgical  Laboratory  (NML),  Jamshedpur  involving physical separation and chemical leaching methods for recycling/recovery of electronic waste;
-  Demonstration  plant  at  Central  Institute  of  Plastics  Engineering  &  Technology (CIPET), Bhubaneswar on converting plastics from e-waste to virgin master batch for use in value added products. The process is capable of converting about 76% of waste plastic into master batch.

## Annex I

## 1. State/UT-wise Status of Solid Waste Generated and Processed up to November 2018

| Sl. No.   | State/ UT                | Total Waste Generation (MTPA)   | Total Waste Processing (%)   |
|-----------|--------------------------|---------------------------------|------------------------------|
| 1.        | Andhra Pradesh           | 2,330,160                       | 29%                          |
| 2.        | Andaman &Nicobar Islands | 36,500                          | 52%                          |
| 3.        | Arunachal Pradesh        | 66,065                          | 20%                          |
| 4.        | Assam                    | 413,910                         | 35%                          |
| 5.        | Bihar                    | 828,915                         | 43%                          |
| 6.        | Chandigarh UT            | 172,280                         | 85%                          |
| 7.        | Chhattisgarh             | 601,885                         | 84%                          |
| 8.        | Daman &Diu               | 11,680                          | 65%                          |
| 9.        | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      | 12,775                          | 0%                           |
| 10.       | NCT of Delhi             | 3,832,500                       | 55%                          |
| 11.       | Goa                      | 94,900                          | 65%                          |
| 12.       | Gujarat                  | 3,702,925                       | 57%                          |
| 13.       | Haryana                  | 1,647,610                       | 17%                          |
| 14.       | Himachal Pradesh         | 124,830                         | 40%                          |
| 15        | Jammu &Kashmir           | 501,510                         | 8%                           |
| 16.       | Jharkhand                | 849,335                         | 42%                          |
| 17.       | Karnataka                | 3,650,000                       | 32%                          |
| 18.       | Kerala                   | 227,760                         | 60%                          |
| 19.       | Madhya Pradesh           | 2,344,760                       | 65%                          |
| 20.       | Maharashtra              | 8,238,050                       | 44%                          |
| 21.       | Manipur                  | 64,240                          | 50%                          |
| 22.       | Meghalaya                | 97,820                          | 58%                          |
| 23.       | Mizoram                  | 73,365                          | 4%                           |
| 24.       | Nagaland                 | 124,830                         | 52%                          |
| 25        | Odisha                   | 992,800                         | 12%                          |
| 26.       | Puduchery UT             | 127,750                         | 10%                          |
| 27.       | Punjab                   | 1,496,500                       | 33%                          |
| 28.       | Rajasthan                | 2,372,500                       | 55%                          |
| 29.       | Sikkim                   | 32,485                          | 66%                          |
| 30.       | Tamil Nadu               | 5,601,655                       | 55%                          |
| 31.       | Telangana                | 2,690,415                       | 73%                          |
| 32.       | Tripura                  | 153,300                         | 45%                          |
| 33.       | Uttar Pradesh            | 6,132,000                       | 57%                          |
| 34.       | Uttarakhand              | 513,190                         | 38%                          |
| 35.       | West Bengal              | 2,810,500                       | 5%                           |
| Total/    | Average                  | 52,971,720                      | 46.03%                       |

## 2. Plastic Waste Generation in Sixty Major Cities of India

|   S. No. | Name of City      |   Total Municipal Solid Waste (Tonnes/day) |   Plastic Waste (Percentage of Municipal Solid Waste) |   Plastic Waste (Tonnes/day) |
|----------|-------------------|--------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------|
|        1 | Kavaratti         |                                          2 |                                                 12.09 |                         0.24 |
|        2 | Dwarka            |                                         18 |                                                  8.08 |                         1.45 |
|        3 | Daman             |                                         25 |                                                  4.64 |                         1.16 |
|        4 | Panjim            |                                         25 |                                                  4.47 |                         1.12 |
|        5 | Gangtok           |                                         26 |                                                  8.95 |                         2.33 |
|        6 | Jamshedpur        |                                         28 |                                                  3.36 |                         0.94 |
|        7 | Silvassa          |                                         35 |                                                  6.11 |                         2.14 |
|        8 | Port Blair        |                                         45 |                                                 10.07 |                         4.53 |
|        9 | Kohima            |                                         45 |                                                  5.01 |                         2.26 |
|       10 | Shimla            |                                         50 |                                                  4.45 |                         2.23 |
|       11 | Meerut            |                                         52 |                                                  6.42 |                         3.34 |
|       12 | Gandhinagar       |                                         97 |                                                  4.81 |                         4.66 |
|       13 | Shillong          |                                         97 |                                                  5.44 |                         5.27 |
|       14 | Itanagar          |                                        102 |                                                  5.35 |                         5.46 |
|       15 | Agartala          |                                        102 |                                                  5.71 |                         5.83 |
|       16 | Aizwal            |                                        107 |                                                  7.95 |                         8.5  |
|       17 | Imphal            |                                        120 |                                                  5.13 |                         6.16 |
|       18 | Ranchi            |                                        140 |                                                  5.92 |                         8.29 |
|       19 | Kochi             |                                        150 |                                                  6.29 |                         9.43 |
|       20 | Dhanbad           |                                        150 |                                                  5.02 |                         7.52 |
|       21 | Guwahati          |                                        204 |                                                  5.04 |                        10.27 |
|       22 | Asansol           |                                        210 |                                                  6.01 |                        12.62 |
|       23 | Dehradun          |                                        220 |                                                  6.67 |                        14.66 |
|       24 | Patna             |                                        220 |                                                  5.73 |                        12.6  |
|       25 | Raipur            |                                        224 |                                                 10.61 |                        23.76 |
|       26 | Rajkot            |                                        230 |                                                  6.93 |                        15.93 |
|       27 | Thiruvanandapuram |                                        250 |                                                  6.02 |                        15.06 |
|       28 | Pondicherry       |                                        250 |                                                 10.46 |                        26.15 |
|       29 | Chandigarh        |                                        264 |                                                  3.1  |                         8.18 |
|       30 | Jammu             |                                        300 |                                                  7.23 |                        21.68 |
|       31 | Jaipur            |                                        310 |                                                  5.03 |                        15.58 |
|       32 | Vishakhapatnam    |                                        334 |                                                  9.03 |                        30.17 |
|       33 | Nashik            |                                        350 |                                                  5.82 |                        20.38 |
|       34 | Bhopal            |                                        350 |                                                  6.59 |                        23.08 |
|       35 | Allahabad         |                                        350 |                                                  5.39 |                        18.86 |
|       36 | Jabalpur          |                                        400 |                                                  5.18 |                        20.7  |
|       37 | Bhubaneswar       |                                        400 |                                                  7.98 |                        31.92 |
|       38 | Madurai           |                                        450 |                                                  5.06 |                        22.77 |
|       39 | Varansi           |                                        450 |                                                  5.76 |                        25.92 |
|       40 | Agra              |                                        520 |                                                  7.86 |                        40.89 |
|       41 | Srinagar          |                                        550 |                                                  5.12 |                        28.14 |
|       42 | Amritsar          |                                        550 |                                                  4.44 |                        24.42 |

| 43.   | Vadodara              | 600   | 4.57   | 27.41   |
|-------|-----------------------|-------|--------|---------|
| 44.   | Vijayawada            | 600   | 7.29   | 43.72   |
| 45.   | Nagpur                | 650   | 7.07   | 45.96   |
| 46.   | Coimbatore            | 700   | 9.47   | 66.31   |
| 47.   | Faridabad             | 700   | 11.29  | 79.03   |
| 48.   | Indore                | 720   | 8.81   | 63.40   |
| 49.   | Ludhiana              | 850   | 5.96   | 50.68   |
| 50.   | Surat                 | 1200  | 12.47  | 149.62  |
| 51.   | Lucknow               | 1200  | 5.90   | 70.84   |
| 52.   | Pune                  | 1300  | 7.80   | 101.35  |
| 53.   | Kanpur                | 1600  | 6.67   | 106.66  |
| 54.   | Ahmedabad             | 2300  | 10.50  | 241.50  |
| 55.   | Kolkata               | 3670  | 11.60  | 425.72  |
| 56.   | Bangalore             | 3700  | 8.48   | 313.87  |
| 57.   | Hyderabad             | 4200  | 4.75   | 199.33  |
| 58.   | Chennai               | 4500  | 9.54   | 429.39  |
| 59.   | Mumbai                | 6500  | 6.28   | 408.27  |
| 60.   | Delhi                 | 6800  | 10.14  | 689.52  |
|       | TotalMSW              | 50592 |        |         |
|       | Average PW generation |       | 6.92   | 4059.18 |

3. Quantum of generation of e-waste in six states
4. State-wise Hazardous Waste Generation (2016-17)

|   Sl. No | Year of Information   | State          | Estimated quantity of e- waste generation (Ton per Annum)   |
|----------|-----------------------|----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | 2015                  | Chhattisgarh   | 43431                                                       |
|        2 | 2012                  | Goa            | 915                                                         |
|        3 | 2012                  | Himachal       | 4749                                                        |
|        4 | 2012                  | Jammu &Kashmir | 500                                                         |
|        5 | 2014-2015             | Madhya Pradesh | 2,20,700                                                    |
|        6 | 2012                  | Punjab         | 12432                                                       |

|   S. No. | State/UT          | Quantity of Hazardous Waste generation (MTA)   |
|----------|-------------------|------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andaman &Nicobar  | Not Applicable                                 |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh    | 282266.4                                       |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh | Information not available                      |
|        4 | Assam             | 29434.64                                       |
|        5 | Bihar             | 7629                                           |
|        6 | Chandigarh        | 2846.892                                       |
|        7 | Chhattisgarh      | 65186.14                                       |

|   8 | Daman &Diu       | INP                       |
|-----|------------------|---------------------------|
|   9 | Delhi#           | 4197.36                   |
|  10 | Goa              | 24796                     |
|  11 | Gujarat          | 2811925.3                 |
|  12 | Haryana          | 58829.43                  |
|  13 | Himachal Pradesh | 29029.38                  |
|  14 | Jammu &Kashmir   | 1043.21                   |
|  15 | Jharkhand        | 578788.6                  |
|  16 | Karnataka        | 336791.6                  |
|  17 | Kerala           | 38466.20                  |
|  18 | Lakshadweep      | 0.00                      |
|  19 | Madhya Pradesh   | 125880.7                  |
|  20 | Maharashtra      | 381686.2                  |
|  21 | Manipur*         | Information not available |
|  22 | Meghalaya        | 75.8                      |
|  23 | Mizoram          | 0.00                      |
|  24 | Nagaland         | 10                        |
|  25 | Odisha           | 595697.8                  |
|  26 | Puducherry*      | Information not available |
|  27 | Punjab           | 115490.1                  |
|  28 | Rajasthan*       | 724663.2                  |
|  29 | Sikkim           | 785.472                   |
|  30 | Tamil Nadu       | 383189.2                  |
|  31 | Telangana        | 277078.5                  |
|  32 | Tripura          | 270.19                    |
|  33 | Uttarakhand      | 24264.09                  |
|  34 | Uttar Pradesh    | 186591.5                  |
|  35 | West Bengal      | 85848.74                  |