Landfills & Open Dumps

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CPCB GUIDELINES FOR DISPOSAL OF LEGACY WASTE (OLD MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE)29.04.2019

Dumpsites need aeration through formation and turning of windrows with spraying of composting Biocultures, just like fresh waste management in compost yards.

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MANAGING PUNE’S WASTE

The basic requirements of good waste management, spelt out in the MSW Rules 2000 are

Every town and city can improve its existing dumps and manage its city waste hygienically and sustainably, starting today, at minimal start-up cost.

Every town and city can improve its existing dumps and manage its city waste hygienically and sustainably, starting today, at minimal start-up cost. Deonar can be an ideal place to start.

Many hazardous wastes in India are produced in cities, the worst among them being from electroplating units run as cottage industries, photographic chemicals, and waste from car garages and paint shops.

For the first time in India, perhaps in the world, a city achieved 100% door-to-door collection of upto 80% fully-segregated waste discards in its residential areas in just one week !

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WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SLUMS 3.11.2013

Slum dwellers are always the most neglected sector for waste collection. They desire and understand the need for a clean environment and the costs of ill health.

We produce 75 - 100 gm non-degradable discards per capita per day in big cities, vs 1-2 kg per capita per day in the West.

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Waste Stabilising in Wind-Rows

Aerobic composting is the most proven method

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Wastepicking changes - To Edit

Anyone involved with SWM notices the presence of ragpickers and their needlessly filthy work and risk of injuries from sharps. My interactions with NGOs, and with the good sensitive best city managers on our Committee

Biomethanation (like gobar gas production) produces methane from ‘wet’ waste (food, fruit, flowers) at near room temperature in a closed chamber.

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YELAHANKA ECO GROUP (YEG)

YEG includes Civil Defence Team, Friends of Lakes, Civic Warriors and Namma Vidyaranyapura, some schools and temple authorities and an NGO. And, of course, the BBMP staff.

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AHP Waste article on web03

For millennia, the wealth and prosperity of ancient India, a country even more agrarian then than it is now, came from sustainable practices like composting and returning nutrients to the soil. Even today in rural India, in backyard middens or roadside pits

The Municipal Solid Waste Rules 2000 required : Improvement of existing sites by 2001

A true story : yesterday a Delhi owner of 350 STPs handed a Freedom Park stall-owner a cheque for Rs 10 crore to give him all-India rights to his formula which saves 90% power in STPs.

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BULK WASTE GENERATOR POLICIES

As per BBMP Notification dt 1.10.2012 : “ any hotel/restaurant, choultry, mall, shopping complex, marriage hall, convention hall, temple, residential

ABSTRACT: India needs to evolve its own set of criteria and policies for natural, low-cost, low-maintenance waste-water treatment systems that do not fail when there are daily and unscheduled power cuts, and do not incur prohibitive power bills, as conventional sewage-treatment plants do.

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Effective City Waste Management

Running a city efficiently and keeping it clean, every day of every year, requires exceptional skills, commitment and dedication at all levels.

The management of urban solid waste in India faces no technical problems at all, only impediments created by unethical practices and poor value systems at every possible level. Conversely, an ethical approach helped a city achieve all its waste-management goals.

PE, PP, PS can all be recycled to gatta (lumps), daana (pellets) and products: Pipe, Hard plastic articles, some film tubing.

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WASTE DISPOSAL IN BANGALORE 2003

Waste disposal has been a problem for humans ever since they began to live collectively in settlements. Recognising its potential for pollution, disease and nuisance, waste has been dumped in heaps outside temporary or permanent settlements since prehistoric times.

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WASTE DISPOSAL IN BANGALORE 2014

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HOTEL WASTE MANAGEMENT OPTIONS

Keep food wastes unmixed with other wastes like plastics and disposable catering items.

Thank you for seeking my views on ways to put an end to ongoing open waste-dumping by making engineered landfills a compulsory first step. Certainly continued open dumping of raw waste is intolerable and can no longer be allowed to continue.

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HP-TERI E-waste school wksp 09

From the Banaswadi flyover, take a left turn towards the slum area and the railway crossing (the turn comes on top of the flyover, much before you go down the flyover). From there you may go till the end of the road

It requires unity and full from DC, Commissioner, Mayor and Councillors. Public cooperation will follow.

Garbage was never a problem in urban India up until the 1950’s. It was an organic-rich resource, competed for and collected by bullock-carts bringing farm produce into towns and cities, for on-farm composting.

India’s urban solid waste management is a mess. Thirty million tonnes annually end up on the outskirts of major urban centres, open-dumped in the territory of surrounding villages or smaller towns...

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MANAGING COMMERCIAL WASTES

No amount of parks and fountains can compensate for filthy streets, overflowing drains, foul odours.

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MANAGING GOA’S WASTE

Goa, home to India’s happiest citizens and the dream destination of tourists, is drowning in waste. This need not be so if Goa learns lessons from best practices elsewhere in India, especially two great examples in Andhra Pradesh and one in Kochi.

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MANAGING KERALA’s WASTE

BEAUTIFUL KERALA HAS SPECIAL PROBLEMS MANAGING WASTE: Heavy and prolonged rainfall

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MANAGING COMMERCIAL WASTES

No amount of parks and fountains can compensate for filthy streets, overflowing drains, foul odours. Lakes cannot be beautified without controlling their pollution at source.

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MANAGING HOUSEHOLD SANITARY WASTE

India’s Municipal Solid Waste Rules 2000 require waste generators to keep ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ wastes unmixed, so that ‘wet’ food waste can be biologically stabilized by composting or biomethanation, and ‘dry’ waste can be recycled, leaving just 10-15% of total waste for landfill.

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MANAGING HOUSEHOLD SANITARY WASTE

Keeping wastes unmixed can help to minimize wastes needing final disposal to just 10-15% of the total produced in a city. That is why the MSW Rules 2000 recommend biological stabilization like composting for “wet” food wastes and recycling of “dry” wastes.

ABSTRACT: Few of us realize how many indirect wastes and hazardous pollutants enter the municipal waste stream, and how necessary and easy it is to minimize these to encourage safe recycling through pro-active, preventive measures to reduce waste and prevent pollution of the waste stream.

Bangalore’s Belhalli quarry is approached by a newly metalled road.

Presently, open dumping outside city limits, with fires and leachate, dogs and pests. Municipal Solid Waste Rules 2000 require BIOLOGICAL STABILISATION of organic wastes, by Composting, Vermi-composting, Biomethanation, etc, to restore India’s degraded & depleted soils.

Waste from apartments or slums is thrown into them. They are used as public toilets.

Waste from apartments or slums is thrown into them. They are used as public toilets

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PCK's Waste Lecture

IT IS APPROPRIATE THAT A TALK ON WASTES SHOULD BEGIN WITH THE WASTE LAND BY TS ELLIOT.

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MANAGEMENT OF WASTE PLASTICS

Plastic packaging is a useful and currently unavoidable part of our lives. Some of it is economically recyclable. But the remaining plastic waste, which ruins farmland when dumped and blown about, has totally destroyed the conversion of organic city waste to compost.

Abstract: This paper traces the history of environmental legislation in India, of Court interventions and proposed civic initiatives for producer responsibility, eco-friendly packaging and waste minimization.

WET food fruit flower waste can be managed at home, apartment, colony, Ward or Zone.

Waste is good material in the wrong place. Discards become Waste ONLY WHEN MIXED !

ABSTRACT: India has pioneered a very simple, low-tech, low-cost, quick and eco-friendly method of remediating old open waste dumps to permanently achieve near-zero emission of landfill gases and leachate. Loosened layers of old waste are sprayed with composting bio-cultures and then formed into conventional aerobic wind-rows above-ground, on-site. The waste is thus sterilized, stabilized and its volume is minimized.

India has pioneered a very simple, low-tech, low-cost, quick and eco-friendly method of remediating old open waste dumps to permanently achieve near-zero emission of landfill gases and leachate. First, fires and smoke are stopped without use of water or soil cover.

Bangalore has two choices for waste management. Immediately start cleanup of Mandur and Mavalipura & Unload all new waste in windrows to STABILISE it, or Manage all waste within the city as no new village will allow it and KSPCB won’t allow fresh open dumping at a new site. So Bangalore must SHOW it can manage its existing sites properly.

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Benefits of Leachate Recirculation

Leachate is a dark smelly liquid that comes out of anaerobic heaps of decomposable waste. When it flows on land or enters nearby open wells it kills off vegetation and makes the water unfit for irrigation or any domestic use, let alone potable. It is extremely difficult to treat in conventional wastewater treatment plants. But leachate contains a large number of microbes suitable for decomposing biodegradable wastes and can be usefully added to compost wind-rows (Heaps)

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Siting Criteria for Compost-Yards and Landfills

The heart and life-line of any waste-management strategy is availability of land for composting sites and adjacent or nearby landfills for their non-toxic compost rejects. Yet these are most unwanted by neighbours, their locations strenuously opposed by the public because of their nuisance and polluting value if poorly managed, and the fear of property values crashing around them.

Action Time-Table for Identifying Sites for Hygienic Waste Processing and Disposal and Commencing Composting Operatons on them

Action by Govt:

Design & Execution of MSW Closure

The implementation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) 2000 rules expects all Municipal bodies to improve, segregate and dispose of the waste in a scientific manner. Open dumping of the waste is the disposal method that is currently adopted by most of the cities. This has led to several groundwater contamination and health related problems.

Urban Agriculture on Stabilised City Waste

Every town and city can improve its existing dumps and manage its city waste hygienically and sustainably, starting today, at minimal start-up cost.

Garbage Management at Dumpsite

Turn the windrow once a week thrice, that is enough to consume 30-35% of the "liable fraction of carbohydrates" which is measure cause of troubles listed above(on the negative side) and most useful part for nutrient conservaiton(on positive side).

Environmental Impact Analysis of Proposed Landfill Sites

The role of the environmental assessment for this solidwaste disposal project is to determine the baseline environmental condition and to evaluate and reduce or prevent the direct and indirect negative cumulative effects on the biophysical, ecological, social and cultural environment.

Extract from Chapter 1—General :

Floodplain, fault area, seismic impact zone, and unstable area restrictions address conditions that they have adverse effects on landfill performance that could lead to releases to the environment or disruptions of natural functions (e.g., floodplain flow restrictions). Airport safety, floodplain, and wetlands criteria intended to restrict MSWLF units in areas where sensitive natural environments and/or the public may be adversely affected.

Remediating Open Dumps and Recycling of Spaces

Bio-mining of old garbage dumps can create new space for waste processing as done at Gorai, Mumbai in 2004 and....

Strictly ban buildings on closed landfills

India's MSW Rules 2000 (Sch III.32) ban human habitation over closed landfills for at least 15 years. This follows experience in the EU. Yet a huge building constructed over a newly-closed dump in Mumbai in 2002 has all computers and appliances within it frequently crashing because of corrosion by escaping landfill gases.

Gases spook comps in IT park built on dump

When it first came up five years ago, Mindspace had changed the landscape of Chincholi-Bunder in Malad from a dumping ground to a commercial hub. However, behind the plush facade, many of the IT and BPO offices have been at their wits end trying to deal with the constant breakdown of their computers and air-conditioners.

Garden on top not enough to stop contamination

The Mindspace hub in Malad’s Chincholi-Bunder area is beset by malfanctioning of electrical equipment, especially computers and ACs, owing to gases emanating from the ground.