Lok Sabha Question No. 1607 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-07-26
Subject: New Solid Waste Management Rules
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: JANARDAN MISHRA, SHOBHA KARANDLAJE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 1607

TO BE ANSWERED ON 26.07.2016

## New Solid Waste Management Rules

## 1607.   SHRI JANARDAN MISHRA: SHRI KUMARI SHOBHA KARANDLAJE:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  recently  notified  the  new  Solid  Waste  Management Rules,  2016  wherein  all  big  garbage  generators  are  made  directly  responsible  for segregating,  sorting  and  managing  waste  in  partnership  with  Urban  Local  Bodies, statutory  towns,  industrial  townships,  areas  under  Indian  Railways  and  defence Cantonments etc. and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the new norms are likely to replace the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2000 and  if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with  the  time  -frame  for  implementation  of  the Rules;
- (c) whether  the  Ministry  has  formed  a  Central  Monitoring  Committee  to  oversee  the implementation of the new guidelines / rules and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether houses in big colonies will now have to segregate garbage in separate bins and compost kitchen waste on site and penalty is levied on violators and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) whether the new rules aims to ensure that minimal waste reaches the landfill sites and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## (SHRI ANIL MADHAV DAVE)

(a) & (b) Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has comprehensively revised and  notified  Solid  Waste  Management  (SWM)  Rule  in  April,  2016  in  supersession  of  the Municipal  Waste  (Management  and  Handling)  Rules,  2000.    As  per  these  rules,  the  bulk generators of waste like State and Central government organizations, railways, airports, ports, defence establishments, special economic zones, important places of pilgrimage, religious & historical importance, hotels & restaurants and gated communities with built up area of five thousand  square  meters  and  above,  in  partnership  with  the  local  authority  should  ensure segregation  of waste at source and channelize dry waste like paper, plastic, glass, metal etc. for  recycling  &  reuse  and  utilize  wet  wastes  from  kitchen  for  composting  or  for  biomethanation.

Under the rules, timelines varying between one year to five years period have been prescribed for local authorities to put in place the facilitating infrastructure which includes door to door collection system by involving Self Help Groups and Ragpickers, infrastructure for  waste  management  like  transportation  and  secondary  storage  of  segregated  waste, establishment  of  waste  processing  facilities,  decentralized  processing  of  wet  waste  and material recovery facilities for dry waste.

( c) The rules provide for constitution of the Central Monitoring Committee comprising representative of various Ministries in Government of India, State Governments, Urban local bodies and  experts.  The nominations from concerned central Ministries have been sought.

(d) As per the SWM Rules, 2016, gated communities with built up area of five thousand square meters and above, in partnership with the local authority should ensure segregation of waste at source and  channelize dry waste like paper, plastic, glass, metal etc. for recycling & reuse and utilize wet wastes from kitchen for composting  or bio-methanation. These rules enable  the  local  body  to  frame  bye-laws  and  prescribe  criteria  for  levying  of  spot  fine  for persons who litters or fails to comply with the provisions of these rules.

(e) The  SWM  Rules,  2016  prescribe  segregation  and  channelization  of  the  recyclable waste for reuse & recovery, biodegradable waste for composting, vermi composting and biomethanation,  combustible  fraction  of  waste  for  refuse  derived  fuel  &  energy  recovery, permitting  only  the  non-usable,  non-recyclable,  non-biodegradable,  non-combustible  and non-reactive  inert  waste  and  residues  from  waste  processing  facilities  to  go  to  sanitary landfill.

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