Municipal Solid Waste

Scenario in
India

Presented by,
Sajob Saji
Roll no: 39
Definition of municipal solid waste
Chart 1
Alternative Estimates for Municipal Solid
Waste Generation
 Chart 2 presents Indian cities which are top
generators of solid waste in 2016, based on data
reported by the cities themselves.
Chart 2
 The 6 largest metropolitan cities (Delhi, Mumbai,
Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad) generate
the maximum volume of solid waste.

 Together they account for 21 per cent of the total

municipal solid waste generated in all Indian cities and
towns.

 Among the smaller cities with population between 1

million and 5 million in Chart 2, Kanpur and Lucknow
are the highest waste generators, generating 1500
TPD and 1200 TPD, respectively.
 Composition of MSW in India
 The Report of the Task Force of the Planning
Commission (2014) places the biodegradable
component of the total municipal solid waste in India at
51 per cent(Chart 3).
Chart 3
 Chart 4 shows the high income countries have 28 per
cent, upper middle income countries 54 per cent, and
the lower middle income countries 59 per cent of their
municipal solid waste which is biodegradable .
Chart 4
 Chart 4 shows China’s biodegradable waste
component to be higher than the average of the
group of upper middle income countries to which
China belongs.

 India’s biodegradable component, by contrast, is

lower than its group of lower middle income
countries.
 Estimates of Collection and Segregation at Source

 Table 2 presents data on door-to-door collection and

segregation at source for selected cities and towns as
reported by the cities and towns themselves.
 Bengaluru and Pune are the only two large cities with
around 50 per cent of the waste segregated at source.
 Among mid-size cities, Indore and Mysore have
achieved 90 per cent and 95 per cent segregation at
source, respectively and a number of small towns have
attained 100 per cent segregation, as reported in Table
2.
 Ahmedabad shows the maximum door to door
collection at 95 per cent, while Delhi is the other
extreme at only 39 per cent.
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