Kotte Solid Waste Management Strategy

to interact more regularly with the households and encourage them to reduce, reuseand segregate waste.• Private sector as a thinking pad: The privatization process will be geared to generateinnovative new thinking and action on EPM/SWM. A more productive and proactivepartnership will be fostered with the sector where the private sector not only be aservice provide but also act as a thinking pad for the local authority. It will beexpected to conduct regular roundtable discussions on measures to improveEPM/SWM in the city and submit their analyses, reports and recommendations forCouncil’s consideration.4. National and Provincial level Policy & Programme Support• The Central Government will be helped with views, comments and suggestions toregularly update the existing guidelines and, where necessary, to issuecomplementary rules for urban solid waste management directing the urban localauthorities to ensure optimum technical and administrative standards. The SWMRules 2000 of the Government of India is a good model to study before undertakingthe exercise.• Researching for new technologies is beyond the capacity of any single local body.Therefore, the Government of Sri Lanka or the Western Provincial Council must setup a Research and Development unit to search for new and updated technologies forrecycling and sanitary land-filling working in association with the Sri LankaStandards Institution and the Sri Lanka Institute of Technology. A time-boundresearch agenda must be developed to provide technical advisory services andresearch support to the local bodies.• In Sri Lanka, palletizing of plastics, smelting of iron and pulping of paper are themost prevalent recycling techniques. Waste is energy too. R&D efforts must beintensified to retrieve energy from waste. For example, a subterranean network ofpunctured pipelines in sanitary landfill areas might help extract cylinderable gaseoussubstances for cooking and lighting purposes.• The Provincial Council and Central government must support and ensure thecontinuity of process-oriented initiatives such as Sustainable Cities Programme & theBasic Urban Services Programme an integral part of its solid waste managementprogramme strategy.5. Strict enforcement of Laws & Policy• This Strategy aims at helping the SJKMC implement the National Strategy for SolidWaste Management in a manner that suits the local conditions. It derives power from