Lok Sabha Question No. 4290 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-12-13
Subject: Waste Management
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Gautham Sigamani Pon

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No.4290

TO BE ANSWERED ON 13.12.2019

## Waste Management

## 4290.   SHRI GAUTAM:

SIGAMAANI PON:

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

- (a) whether the Government proposes to impart training to panchayat members regarding waste management;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the details of participating countries including organizations from other countries and India in the said initiatives;
- (d) whether the Government is aware of any specific use of waste which could be made possible through application of technology; 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) The  Ministry  in  supersession  of  Municipal  Solid  Waste  (Management  and Handling) Rules, 2000, has notified the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. The Rules, under the duties and responsibilities of local authorities, village panchayats of census towns and urban agglomerations prescribes to provide training on solid waste management to wastepickers and waste collectors.

Under Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, every gram panchayat is mandated to set up, operationalise  and  co-ordinate  for  waste  management  in  the  rural  area  under  their  control andensuring segregation, collection, storage, transportation of plastic waste and channelization of recyclable plastic waste fraction to recyclers, creating awareness among all stakeholders about their responsibilities andensuring that open burning of plastic waste does not take place.

Under  the  schemeof  'Creation  of  Management  Structure  for  Hazardous  Substances',  the Ministry has engaged National Productivity Council (NPC) for rolling out capacity building programmes, workshops, trainings etc. to raise awareness about waste management in select towns. Further, MoEFCC has engaged Chintan, an educational research and action group and Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Smruti Sansthan for carrying out campaigns to educate the public and elicit behaviour change in the form of reducing their consumption of single use plastics and benefits of recycling of plastic

(d)  and (e) The  waste  which  is  discarded  at  various  levels  can  be  utilized  as  resource through  application  of  technology.  The  bio-degradable  waste  is  processed,  treated  and disposed  off  through  composting  or  bio-methanation  to  produce  compost  and  bio-gas respectively.  The  plastic  waste  is  utilized  (i)  in  road  construction,  (ii)  Co-processing  in Cement Kilns, (iii) Conversion of plastic waste into liquid RDF (Oil) and (iv) Disposal of plastic  waste  through  Plasma  Pyrolysis  Technology  (PPT).Construction  and  Demolition waste can be processed to recover sand, gravel, bricks, steel, wood etc and can be utilized in various  construction  activities,  e-waste  can  be  processed  using  various  technologies  to recover valuable material like gold, silver, copper etc,

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