Indian Express 11.12.2009
Workshop on solid waste management begins
A Two-day workshop on solid waste management, being organised by the Indian Plastic Institute (IPI), Chandigarh Chapter and Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment (ICPE), began on Thursday. Experts laid emphasis on the need to evolve sustainable solutions by adopting efficient waste management techniques.
The workshop was inaugurated by UT Home Secretary Ram Niwas who stressed on critical issues concerning solid waste management namely viability of garbage processing units, easy availability of alternate technologies to eradicate the use of plastic bags, sensitisation of general public towards the issue. Niwas also said that a model for dry waste management in one sector could be implemented which could be replicated in other places after its success.
In his keynote address, Dr Anil Jain, chairman, State Level Environment Appraisal Authority of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, said collection, sorting, processing and disposal of solid waste and plastics was necessary.
Interesting themes like solid waste characterisation and value assessment, technologies for value addition of municipal solid waste, plastic waste management as well as biomedical and hazardous industrial waste were deliberated upon.
Around 85 delegates from various industries and institutes from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi participated in the workshop.
