The writer is chairperson of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and former chairperson of the high-powered expert committee on urban infrastructure and services.
Patel is member, Supreme Court committee on solid waste management
The three bin solution
Hazardous, wet and dry domestic waste must be separated. The primary responsibility lies with consumers.
There are rules galore for domestic hazardous waste with quite a bit of overlap in coverage for different types of waste.
We have been writing about the importance of not mixing household wastes because the tasks of collection, transport, recycling, processing and safe disposal are much easier if the dry and wet wastes are kept separate in the first instance. We focus here on a completely different kind of household waste — hazardous waste.
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