


It will also decrease disease, improve the quality of life of urban Indians, and avoid environmental pollution. Such a system will divert 93.5% of MSW from landfilling, and increase the life span of a landfill from 20 years to 300 years. Ash from WTE facilities should be used to make bricks or should be contained in a sanitary landfill facility. Rejects from the composting facility should be combusted in a waste-to-energy facility to recover energy. It should be used for gardening purposes only or as landfill cover. Use of compost product from mixed wastes for agriculture should be regulated. Single households, restaurants, food courts and other sources of separated organic waste should be encouraged to employ small scale biomethanation and use the biogas for cooking purposes. Waste pickers should also be employed at material recovery facilities (or MRFs) to increase the percentage of recycling. Informal recycling can be integrated into the formal system by training and employing waste pickers to conduct door-to-door collection of wastes, and by allowing them to sell the recyclables they collected. economic situation, existing industrial corridors & complexes in the. This report proposes a waste disposal system which includes integrated informal recycling, small scale biomethanation, MBT and RDF/WTE. Major and non-major ports, industrial units and evacuation infrastructure have.
