New Rules For Waste Management Released By NEERI
India is an agriculturally based country with a present population of 1.311 billion. Being a developing country and due to its rapid industrial growth, the urban population is also increasing. As a result, the Class I and Class II towns have increased tremendously and so has the MSW because of the improved life style and social status of the populations in the urban centers. This has resulted in the increase of the annual waste generation and the issue of its disposal. The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has been carrying out studies for a long time in almost 50 cities of the country and then has released a paper with the characterization of the waste, how they can be converted, if they can, and if not then the ways to reduce the burden on the landfills. Nirmal Singh 3C Company talks about the deficiencies listed by NEERI in the storage and collection of MSW, they are as follows: • Faults in the sweeping an...