Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Currently, there are two ways to manage waste in India – one is landfills and the other is incineration

The core issues remain – absence of segregation of waste at source; lack of technical Currently, there are two ways to manage waste in India – one is landfills and the other is incinerationexpertise and arrangement; no proper collection, segregation, transportation, and treatment/ disposal systems employed by ULBs.

The pathetic state of garbage disposal results from the fact that the policy-makers residing in the comparative clean Lutyens’ Delhi, have blissfully closed their eyes to the filth strewn across other parts of the country. There is no dearth of laws to keep the cities clean, but no one has the will to implement them. We simply depend upon the winds to fl y away the garbage from our vicinity into our neighbour’s backyard. That way, we’ll continue to live a degraded standard of life.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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