JEMTEC

  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