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    This document outlines Kerala's Haritha Keralam waste management program. It discusses the need to properly manage waste to prevent environmental contamination and harm to humans. The strategy involves source-level treatment of biodegradable and recyclable waste. Local bodies have responsibilities like door-to-door collection and determining user fees. Components include solid waste management through composting and material recovery facilities, as well as liquid waste management with decentralized sewerage. The goals are to follow a green protocol with an emphasis on reducing, reusing, and recycling to achieve zero waste local bodies.

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    This document outlines Kerala's Haritha Keralam waste management program. It discusses the need to properly manage waste to prevent environmental contamination and harm to humans. The strategy involves source-level treatment of biodegradable and recyclable waste. Local bodies have responsibilities like door-to-door collection and determining user fees. Components include solid waste management through composting and material recovery facilities, as well as liquid waste management with decentralized sewerage. The goals are to follow a green protocol with an emphasis on reducing, reusing, and recycling to achieve zero waste local bodies.

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    This document outlines Kerala's Haritha Keralam waste management program. It discusses the need to properly manage waste to prevent environmental contamination and harm to humans. The strategy involves source-level treatment of biodegradable and recyclable waste. Local bodies have responsibilities like door-to-door collection and determining user fees. Components include solid waste management through composting and material recovery facilities, as well as liquid waste management with decentralized sewerage. The goals are to follow a green protocol with an emphasis on reducing, reusing, and recycling to achieve zero waste local bodies.

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    This document outlines Kerala's Haritha Keralam waste management program. It discusses the need to properly manage waste to prevent environmental contamination and harm to humans. The strategy involves source-level treatment of biodegradable and recyclable waste. Local bodies have responsibilities like door-to-door collection and determining user fees. Components include solid waste management through composting and material recovery facilities, as well as liquid waste management with decentralized sewerage. The goals are to follow a green protocol with an emphasis on reducing, reusing, and recycling to achieve zero waste local bodies.

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    Haritha Keralam

    Waste
    Management
    Why?
    Absorbed End up in
    by plants, humans
    microbes,
    animals
    Leach
    into soil,
    water…
    Maximum Concentration in
    Humans particularly children

    26 November 2016 Dr.K.VASUKI 5


    Is this the road we are going to
    give them to tread their life?
    4 . Duties of waste
    generators
    • Segregate
    • Pay user fee
    • Shall not burn or litter
    • Permission from local
    bodies for organising
    functions having more
    than 100 people.
    15. Duties of local bodies
    26 Duties
    • Arrange for door to
    door collection.
    • Determine user fees.
    • Material Recovery
    Facility.
    • Determine fees for sale
    of carry bags. No free
    carry bags.
    Main components
    • Solid Waste Management

    • Liquid Waste Management

    • Slaughter Houses

    • Crematorium.
    Solid Waste Management
    • Biodegradable waste ( 50 to 60 %)
    • Non- Biodegradable waste (40 to
    50%)
    – Recyclable waste (90%)
    – Rejects ( 5 to 10 %)
    – Sanitary waste ( 1 to 2 %)
    Waste
    Every product we use comes from
    limited Natural Resources
    Waste is not
    a waste but a
    resource
    that is not to
    be wasted.
    Every item we discard
    needs to be given the
    same respect as any
    valuable resource.
    Strategy
    • Source Level Treatment of waste to
    the maximum.
    – Households
    – Hotels, resorts, restaurants malls

    mandated by Kerala Panchayati Raj and


    Municipality Act

    • Coupling with Kitchen Gardening


    • Urban Farming (an upcoming
    concept)
    Strategy
    BIODEGRADABLE WASTE
    • Decentralised Community
    Level Composting
    – Wherever Source Level
    Treatment not possible.
    – Public places, Agricultural and
    Horticulture
    – Efficient forward linkages with
    farmers, live stock rearers, etc
    necessary
    – Convergence with Agriculture
    and Animal Husbandry
    Department.
    Eco friendly Kiosks
    • Sale of composting
    devices by private
    vendors and service
    providers
    • Sale of inoculum
    – Public libraries
    – Krishi Bhavan, etc
    The order of importance of these R’s is
    as follows:
    Green protocol
    Disposables on an
    indispensable planet
    No
    disposables..

    just say no
    Attukal Pongala
    Reuse (SWM Rule 11 (b))
    •Repair shops and repair workers
    •Swap shops
    Recyclable Waste

    India
    recycles
    60% of its
    recyclable
    waste.
    The real environmentalists of Kerala

    26 November 2016 L.P.CHITHER 35


    Material Recovery Facility
    KANNUR – KUTHUPARAMBU
    MODEL HAS TO BE
    REPLICATED (SWM RULE
    11.(C) )
    •Recycling parks in every district
    •Can recycle paper, plastic, glass,
    metal, e waste,
    •Convergence with Industries
    Department.
    •As per SWM rule 11(i) minimum
    five percent or five plots to be
    earmarked in industrial estates and
    Industrial Parks.
    LIQUID WASTE
    MANAGEMENT
    • Onsite Waste Water Systems
    need to be encouraged to the
    maximum.
    • Decentralised sewerage
    • Septage plants in every
    district/local body.
    Disposal free synergy for non
    biodegradable waste

    REPAIR
    MRF
    SHOP

    SWAP
    KIOSK
    SHOP
    Sanitary Waste
    • Can be treated as bio-
    medical waste.
    • IMAGE forward
    linkage.
    Rejects
    • Sanitary Landfill
    – Every District (25 to 30
    acres)
    Way forward…
    Immediate :
    • Campaign launch activities
    • Survey
    • Household level declaration.
    • Performance Indicators
    • Online monitoring
    Performance indicators
    • Percentage of door to
    door collection.
    • Community level
    composting
    • Reduce (Green Protocol)
    • Reuse (Swap Shops)
    • Recycle (Material
    Recovery Facility)
    • Enforcement activities
    and rules implementation.
    Step to be taken by the local
    bodies.
    Charity starts from home
    • All collectorates, Taluk offices
    • All other government and public
    offices.

    Zero waste offices


    Final outcome

    Zero Waste Declaration of all local


    bodies
    Campaign

    SRP

    DRP DRP

    Ward Ward Ward

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