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The “What” and
“Why” of it!
Waste Management:
COMPOST
UPCYCLED
September 23, 2021 - Session for IBS
By
Pratima Pandey

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Is Waste Management Important…?
Who is your session presenter today?
• Pratima Pandey, M. Phil in Economics
with certification in SWM
• A decade into volunteering and
organizing green events
• YouTube Eco-content creator
www.youtube.com/user/pratinii

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Is Waste Management Important…?
Waste Management is a “not-so-relevant”
task or an activity which is better done by
others for us!
This is the general perspective, right?

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Contents of this Session
Part 1: Why: Why Waste Management?
Part 2: What: Methods of Waste Management

5. Why Waste Management?

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Why Waste Management?
Waste is an inevitable byproduct of our
life…more so, modern lifestyle!
USA has 4 times the per capita waste
production of India.

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Why Waste Management?
DOWNSIDES OF MISMANAGEMENT
Let’s face it, India is “waste mismanaged”
About 80% of the waste untreated and
dumped or burnt

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Why Waste Management?
Land dump River dump Ocean dump

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Why Waste Management?
Ocean Dump – The biggest
of all!
The Great
Pacific
Patch – 1.6
M sq km

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Why Waste Management? Impact of waste
dumping
Eye
Sore
Sanitation
issues
Health
impacts
Open waste dumping

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Why Waste Management? Impact of waste
dumping
Flooding due to
choked drains
Fire Hazard
Tourism losses
Climate change
Open waste dumping

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Why Waste Management? Impact of
waste burning
This!
A Common Evening Sight in
Trivandrum Suburbs
Picture Perfect on a clear day
transforms to…

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Why Waste Management? Impact of
waste burning
Health hazard
•Smoke
•Heavy and
toxic
chemicals
•Bad smell

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Why Waste Management?
Diseases
due to
sanitation
issues
Diseases
by air
Pollution
Tourism
losses
Climate
change
Threat to
marine
animals

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Why Waste Management?
Are we convinced now that waste
management is required and WE have to
take responsibility?

16. Part 2: What are methods of
waste management?

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Ways of Waste Management: What is it
Wealth Out
of Waste
(WoW)
WASTE
MANAGEMENT

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Ways of Waste Management?
Waste Segregation
First step of
management!
How it helps:
Understanding
of our waste
generation
pattern
Prevention of
cross-
contamination

19. z Ways of Waste Management? Waste
Categories
Wet Waste
• Kitchen waste
• Garden waste
Dry Waste
• Plastics and Thermocol; metals
• Paper and Cardboard; glass
• Metals
E Waste
Electronic gadgets, appliances,
accessories, batteries
Sanitary Waste
• Diapers
• Menstrual waste

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Ways of Waste Management?
Waste Reduction is the key first step of
management!
Follow Rs (reduce, reuse, repair, resell…)
(Discussed in my videos on youtube.com/pratinii)

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Ways of Waste Management?
• Composting
• Biogas
Wet
Waste
• Recycling
• Upcycling
• Eco bricking
Dry
Waste
• Reuse
• Resell
• Recycle
E Waste
• Replace with reusable alternatives
• Biomedical incineration
Sanitary
Waste

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Ways of Waste Management?
Like any other important work,
WASTE MANAGEMENT REQUIRES
INVESTMENT OF EFFORT AND MONEY…
Are we up for it?
https://youtu.be/tnvj9DWRXR8
(A summary of videos done on waste
management)

23. If yes, I expect
some questions…
please ask!

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