Citizen Partnership in Waste Management Awareness and Behavior Change in South-west Delhi Slum
Project Background & Objectives: There has been a quantum increase in the generation of solid waste and its quality with rapid population growth and urbanization. The composition of solid waste depends on several factors such as the lifestyle of people, their relative standards of living, general consumer patterns, and the level of technological advancement. The lack of effective solid waste management creates serious health, safety, and environmental consequences. Poorly managed waste serves as a breeding ground for disease vectors, contributes to global climate change through methane generation, and even promotes urban violence.
• Provide information on waste management to the local people.
• Awareness program to slum lived at Southwest Delhi area.
• Health and hygiene program for the Slums.
• Knowledge generation of waste segregation
• Behaviourchange meetings with slums
Project location: Delhi
Activities completed and methodology followed:
• Segregation of waste at source
• Door to door collection
• Single/ multi-point aggregation
• Scientific processing
• Bulk waste generators
• Promotion of home composting and kitchen gardening
• On-site management of park/ garden/ horticulture waste
• Marketing of compost and recyclables
• Integration of rag pickers and community-based organization
• Service charges and spot fine
• Prohibition on the burning of waste
• Prohibition of one time use of plastic/ thermocol items
• Education strategy for sustained behavior change and public participation
• Strengthening the capacity of ULBs
• Safety measures
• Institutional arrangements
Results/outcomes achieved: sustaining the scientific solid waste management by adopting the systematic decentralized approach focusing on 6Rs principlei.e., refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, redesign and research
• Waste reduction at source by discouraging the non-biodegradable materials like plastic bags,
• Single-uses plastic & thermocol disposal items etc.
• 100% source segregation i.e., biodegradables (wet waste), non-biodegradable (dry waste) and domestic hazardous waste,
• Proficient transportation of segregated waste,
• Composting/ biogas and maximum material recovery closest to its generation (onsite/decentralized manner),
• Reclamation/ bio-mining of existing waste dump sites,
• Integration of rag pickers, bulk waste generators and institutions (religious, educational, defense/ paramilitary/ police/ sports establishments),
• Community awareness and active involvement of community from planning to execution phase
• Imparting the compulsory environment education in all classes/ grades focusing on scientific
• waste management mechanism
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