COLLECTION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF WASTE FROM CITY
10.10. COLLECTION OF BIO-MEDICAL WASTE
Collection of bio-medical waste should be done in accordance with the rules/directions contained in the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India Notification dated 20th July 1998 as the liability for safe disposal of biomedical waste is on such waste producer and the local body as such is not directly responsible to provide any service. The recommendations given in the chapter on biomedical waste (Chapter 7) in the manual may be followed.
10.11. COLLECTION OF HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WASTE
Hotels and restaurants may make their own arrangements for collection of waste through their own association, or local bodies may extend help in primary collection of such waste by deploying their own manpower and machinery for door step collection of such waste on full-cost-recovery basis. The cost could be recovered on pro-rata basis. Doorstep service may be contracted out by local bodies if so desired.
Charges for the collection of hotel waste may depend upon the quantity of waste to be picked up from the hotels and restaurants and frequency of collection required.
The cost recovery may be planned according to the classification of hotels/ restaurants made on the above basis and decided in consultation with them.
Thorough survey of the waste generation by hotels/ restaurants may be made before the collection rates are introduced and notified.
10.12 VEGETABLE, FRUIT, MEAT AND FISH MARKETS WASTE
Such wastes should be removed on a daily basis either departmentally or through contractors on full or part-cost-recovery basis as may be deemed appropriate by local bodies.
Large containers kept in the fruit and vegetable markets should be removed during night time or non-peak hours and the waste from meat and fish markets should be collected through closed pick-up vans service by engaging a contractor, or departmentally as deemed expedient by the local body.
10.13 COLLECTION OF GARDEN WASTE
The waste stored in public and private parks, gardens, lawn plots etc. should be collected on a weekly basis by arranging a rotation for collecting such waste from different areas, on different days to be notified to the people to enable them to trim the trees and lawns accordingly and keep the waste ready. This waste may be got collected through a contractor or departmentally as deemed appropriate by the urban local authorities. Cost recovery may be insisted upon, based on the volume of waste collected.
10.14 COLLECTION OF WASTE FROM MARRIAGE HALLS, KALYAN MANDAPS, COMMUNITY HALLS, ETC.
The special arrangement should be made for collection of waste from marriage halls, kalyan mandaps, community halls, etc. daily on a full-cost recovery basis. The cost of such collection could be built into the charges for utilising such halls. This service may be provided preferably through a contractor or departmentally as the local bodies deem fit. On-site, processing of food wastes by bio-methanation and composting may be encouraged.
10.15. COLLECTION OF CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE
· Local bodies should prescribe the rate per tonne for the collection, transportation and disposal of construction waste and debris and notify the same to the people.
· Every person who is likely to produce construction waste may be required to deposit with the concerned local body an approximate amount in advance at the rates as may be prescribed by the local body from time to time, for the removal and disposal of construction waste from his premises by the local body. Such amount may be deposited at the time when the building permission is being sought and in cases where such permission is not required, at any time before such waste is produced.
· The charges for removal of construction waste to be doubled for those who fail to deposit the amount in advance.
· Large local bodies may provide skips (large containers) to the waste producers on rent for the storage of construction waste so that double handling of the waste can be avoided or use front end loader & trucks to pick up such waste. In small towns this may be done manually using trucks, tractors and manpower.
· To facilitate disposal of small quantities of construction/demolition waste, large containers may be placed in various parts of the city where waste producers may deposit small quantities through private labourers, cart pullers, donkeys, etc. and such waste may be collected by ULBs from time to time before such containers start over flowing.
10.16. DAIRY AND CATTLE-SHED WASTE
The dairies and cattle breeders having sheds within the city limits should be asked to move the cattle sheds outside the city limits and until this is implemented they should be directed not to stack the cow dung, grass or other stable wastes within their premises or on the roadside. They must transfer the waste produced by them daily into the specified municipal storage containers nearby, which should be collected at regular intervals by local bodies.
10.17 COLLECTION OF DOMESTIC HAZARDOUS & TOXIC WASTE
Collection of Domestic Hazardous & Toxic Waste such as used batteries, paints, broken tube lights, expired medicines and others shown in chapter of Storage of Waste kept separately in the bins placed in various parts of the city should be collected periodically by the urban local bodies and got segregated and disposed of as per the hazardous waste management rules of the Government of India.
