Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Municipal solid waste

This lack of holistic planning is much evident in the way we have encouraged consumerism without thinking about how we would dispose off the waste created by high consumption levels. Despite the Indian economic boom, India is far from being beautiful. The filth & squalor make it look as ugly as any third world nation. It is indeed a sad story that presently India produces a whopping 42 million tonnes of municipal solid waste annually. And then we are hoping to be the next super power. With a burgeoning population (over 1,027 million), generation of waste has increased manifold. The urban population (285 million in mumber, spread across 5,161 cities) is increasing by around 4% annually (mainly due to migration), in the process increasing the waste generation by 5% annually.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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