Sustainable Solid Waste Management: Issues Policies and Structures

Fast Public transport, fancy shopping malls, fusion food joints… Delhi has them all. But, what about a disposal system for its filth? 7000 tonnes of garbage gets generated every day! There is much media coverage about workshops for awareness building among citizen groups, designer bins in lieu of dhalaos and hi-tech self-loading system for periodically heaving the containers for final dumping under expert foreign supervision. The reality, however, is that waste in public places is becoming even more conspicuous every day. In this study, the incorrigible problem of invisibilising a city’s waste in a safe manner has been demystified.