Strategic Action Plan - International Environmental Technology Centre

Strategic Action Plan Report
projects in partnership. However, an integrated and strategic approach is still missing. In most cases the
projects and initiatives have remained either isolated or not up-scaled or replicated. Individual or
fragmented approach is bound to become unsustainable in view of increasing complexity of the waste
streams. Unless the approach is strategic and cross-sectional, ad-hoc waste management will always
remain a challenge.
There is also a dire need to integrate the informal sector into mainstream waste management process. The
informal sector comprising of rag-pickers, illegal or unauthorized recyclers, are estimated to be handling a
substantial portion of the waste generated without the requisite environmental safeguards. The social
aspects of waste management are thus equally important as the waste treatment technologies.
In order to execute the strategic approach, a plausible solution would be an integrated approach towards
waste management. This approach would include collective management of all types of wastes and
implementation of the 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) policies and strategies.
For the city of Pune, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has a mandate of facilitating and the
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has a mandate of enforcing key environmental legislation
for protection of the environment under the guidance of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
In the recent times, a myriad of new and complex environmental regulations have come to effect,
requiring significant efforts at the end of MPCB as well as PMC. This has called for development of
focused strategies towards strengthening infrastructure and deployment of modern tools especially on
monitoring and information management. In addition, restructuring of the organization and revamping of
the internal processes may also be required as supported by appropriate training and development of
human resources.
Given the keen interest of communities in the protection of environment today and the mainstreaming of
environmental considerations in the globalization of business and trade, PMC can no longer limit their
role to facilitating and MPCB to enforcement of environmental legislation alone. Today, both PMC and
MPCB needs to function both as a regulator as well as a facilitator by sharing information, by stimulating
public-private partnerships and by adopting modern practices of doing business. Here, PMC and MPCB
needs to ensure that requisite environmental infrastructure are in place to manage wastes and residues in a
safe and secured manner.
Therefore, in order to cope with the problem of Solid Waste Management, The United Nations
Environmental Programme (UNEP) through International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC),
Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics (DTIE) are collaborating with Pune Municipal
Corporation (PMC) in implementing the project “Development and Implementation of an Integrated
Waste Management Plan for Pune”.
1.2 Project Scope
The objective of the project is to develop an Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) plan covering
MSW, BMW, industrial hazardous waste, C&D waste and E-waste. The plan would cover all the aspects
of ISWM chain including collection, segregation, transportation, recycling, treatment and disposal.
For the plan development and implementation, the project has been divided into three aspects which are
briefed below.
ISWM Plan for Pune 2