NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT RULES

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Recently the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change notified the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as “New Waste Management Rules”) providing for solid waste segregation and management at household level. Libertarian as it may sound, its implementation still remains a bleak reality.

Every coin has two sides to it and although waste segregation at household level may appear to solve the evil of climate degradation at the grassroot level to some respectable extent, it poses far reaching social concerns such as capitalization of waste collection by corporates and loss of livelihood of private waste collectors who are not adequately trained in waste management.

The issue of solid waste management has a bearing on various issues such as precedential environmental decisions pronouncedby the Supreme Court of India in light of Article 21 (Right to life) of the Constitution of India. There has been a paradigm shift in waste management brought forth by New Waste Management Rules that replaced the 16 year old Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000. Hence there is requirement of robust public awareness systems and strong sanctions paving way for climate stabilization at ground level, Social concerns entailing proper household waste management systems such as capitalization of the sector leading to loss of jobs and livelihood of private garbage collectors, Potential environmental governance reforms such as imposition of stringent penalties in case of breach of New Waste Management Rules, empowerment of Residential Welfare Authorities to formulate necessary waste management regulations, vigorous public awareness schemesamongst others in order to ensure adherence to aforementioned norms.

The Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 is the latest exertion by the Union Government to undo the wrong done to mother nature on a daily basis. The said rules are in consonance with the fundamental duty enshrined in the Constitution of India under Article 51-A(g).

 

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