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Solid Waste Management Rules will now be expanded to include census towns, industrial townships, SEZs and outgrown villages of metropolises, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar, said on Tuesday.
The Ministry announced the updated Solid Waste Management Rules, which were earlier notified in 2000. However, even after expanding the rules, which till now only covered 15 million people, only 45 million people are expected to be covered under it. Javadekar said that currently India generates about 62 million tonnes of solid waste annually. Of this, only 30 per cent or 12 million tonnes get treated, while 31 million tonnes end up in landfills and 19 million tonnes doesn’t even get collected. It is expected that India’s solid waste generation will rise 250 per cent to 165 million tonnes by 2030.
Besides, mandating wet and dry segregation of waste at source, the rules also require producers of sanitary napkins and diapers to provide pouches for proper disposal.
The rules put the onus on bulk generators of waste, including hotels, markets and resident welfare associations of gated colonies, which would need to segregate waste into wet (bio-degradable), dry (plastic, paper, metal wood etc) and domestic hazardous (diapers, sanitary napkins, empty containers of cleaning agents, insect repellents etc).
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