+ All Categories
Home > Education > Households SWM

Households SWM

Date post: 20-Jun-2015
Category:
Upload: ramesh-satyam
View: 403 times
Download: 4 times
Share this document with a friend
Description:
Promotion of best practices for Households in Solid Waste Management
Popular Tags:
12
Together We Can Make It Happen! Reduce The Risk To Public Health Through Better Management of the Wastes We Generate” A Presentation for Residents & Households
Transcript
Page 2: Households SWM

Household – Unit of Living

A household includes all the persons who occupy a housing unit.

Housing UnitA housing unit is a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.

Page 3: Households SWM

Separate living quarters are those in which the occupants live and eat separately from any other persons in the building and which have direct access from the outside of the building or through a common hall.

The occupants may be a single family, one person living alone, two or more families living together, or any other group of related or unrelated persons who share living arrangements.

Separate Living Quarters

Residential Areas

Groups of Households are usually found in residential colonies, apartments, gated communities and slums.

Page 4: Households SWM

From Open Points and Community Bins to Door to Door Collection

Prior to the introduction of Door to Door Collection of Waste from Households, Households were expected to deposit the wastes generated by them in community bins. Most wastes never reached the bins . They were either destroyed in a fire or dumped along the roads and in open lands.

Page 5: Households SWM

Door to Door Collection

To reduce risk to public health from improperly disposed wastes and to facilitate removal, collection and transport from source, door to door collection was introduced about a decade ago. This brought down littering, illegal dumping and open burning of wastes considerably in residential areas. Today, most households subscribe and avail door to door collection service.

Page 6: Households SWM

Door to Door Collection

Door to Door Collection improved the efficiency in solid waste collection and transport as well as generated employment and source of livelihood to persons from the urban poor.

The source of income of persons engaged in primary collection of solid wastes is from collection of user fees from households to whom he provides collection service and proceeds from sale of recyclables recovered from mixed wastes usually segregated, separated and sorted at the time of collection from source and at the time of unloading his cart near the community bin.

Page 7: Households SWM

Types of Wastes Generated at Households

Page 8: Households SWM

Segregation of Waste

Dry – WetBiodegradable – Non-biodegradableGarbage - RubbishCompostable – Recyclable – Trash

Wastes could be categorized in over a hundred ways, but to begin with, we need to get in place at least a two bin system for segregation such as the top three classifications given above and handover whatever that doesn’t fit in like domestic hazardous and bio-medical wastes separately to the door to door waste collector or deposit them in appropriate community bins.

Page 9: Households SWM

Benefits of Segregating Waste

Enables Easier, Cleaner, Safer and Optimal Resource Recovery

Reduces Waste that’s taken for Landfill

Reduces Time, Energy, Labor and Expense on Resource Recovery

Larger Quantity and Better Quality Resources can be Extracted from Waste

Facilitates Conversion of Waste into Resource

Reduces Dependence on Extraction of Depleting Natural Resources

Promotes 3Rs and Environmentally Safe Disposal

Reduces Costs, Improves Earnings and Promotes Sustainability

Helps in Keeping Our Locality Clean & Green

Page 11: Households SWM

DOs & DON’Ts for Residents & Households

Segregate Wet & Dry WasteDo not mix Biodegradable with Non-biodegradable WasteDo not LitterDo not Burn Waste including LeavesPreach & Practice Reduce, Reuse, RecycleHelp Keep your Locality & City Clean & Green

Put off and discourage people from setting waste heaps on fire!

Page 12: Households SWM

Recommended