Waste Disposal Gurgoan: Eco Wise Waste Management to start waste disposal services in Gurgoan.
AFTER scripting a success story in Noida, Eco Wise Waste Management, the only company in the country with a separate segregation and treatment site, is set to launch its waste management facility in Gurgaon in July this year.“We will be following Eco Wise Umbrella Model, that is collection, transportation, segregation, treatment and disposal,” said Manik Thapar , founder and CEO of Eco Wise. “Currently, we are in the process of locating land, on which we will build our organic waste treatment facility, along with a wear house to stock recyclable product,”Mr Thapar said.
Despite the bold leap that the city has taken in industry and business over the past decade, Gurgaon still lacksorganised waste management. With higher levels of economic growth, Gurgaon generates around 500-550 tons of waste every day, including residential, commercial and industrial discard. Explaining the concept, Mr Thapar said, “Collection of waste is only one part of the process. One of the major issues is treatment and disposal of waste.” A lot of this waste such as organic refuse can be converted into nutrient- rich compost utilising a simple process.
Another issue is of construction debris. This waste can be put to use in rural area where there are no roads built, and the same debris can be crushed and used for hardening the road surface, according to Eco Wise officials. In its initial stages, the company is looking to cover major hotels, malls and large corporate offices in
Gurgoan. “We are also in talks with some major real estate players to provide them with residential waste management services (door-to-door collection). A lot of interest has also been generated by large corporate to avail our services. As of now I can not mention any names, but the interest is enormous,” said Mr Thapar, a pioneer of waste management industry in India.
As per Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) estimates, every 1percent growth in the GDP (Gross domestic
Product) in the past is likely to result in a 3 percent growth in hazardous waste. Likening the situation
of similar growth in France, in order to tackle the problems of rapid economic waves that Gurgoan is witnessing, it becomes important for the satellite city to devise an effective strategy for hazardous waste management in the early stages itself.
Civic authorities in Gurgaon have seemingly failed in proper treatment and disposal of waste where the collection, transportation, treatment and disposal are done mostly by the unorganised players. As of now, the local waste-collector or house-helps dumps the waste in nearby open grounds or a convenient place and Municipality workers collect it on an irregular basis to dumps it in the landfills. No segregation or treatment takes place in the process. The valuables are extracted by rag-pickers while the rest (about 90 percent of the total) is burnt in the open. Worse, the waste is left scattered or completely ignored.
Volunteer or residential groups complain that apart from playing host to a number of disease, the waste lying
in the open reduces the aesthetic quality of the surroundings. “Most of the waste management is handled by amateur players,” said Anil, caretaker of a society in Nirvana Country in Sector 57. “Our main concern in dealing with the garbage is cleanliness, keep parking space unoccupied, and avoid a stinky atmosphere.”
Imran Malik, operations manager of Eco Wise agrees. “Lack of education and understanding of what can be
done with waste is a major handicap for the unorganised sector. We solve the problem by ensuring that the organic waste is treated and converted into compost along with ensuring that certain elements in inert waste, that most people would think are useless, can be put to use. In general, 80-85 percent of the waste we collect is put to use, rather than dumped.” According to Mr Malik, the demographic mix is a major reason that has lead to the growth of waste generation in the city. “Over the years people’s income has risen substantially along with their spending power. Increased consumption of FMCG goods means increased waste. Also, people have started eating out more, with more and more nuclear families popping up with both partners working; eating out or ordering take out has increased ten folds. All this adds to the generation of waste, and the more the people consume more the waste is generated,” he said.
The new model claims to ensures that only waste that cannot be recycled or put to any use would be disposed off in an authorised landfill or dumpsite. The composition of residential waste is large metros is 60 percent organic, 25 percent recyclables and 15 percent inert. The current process utilised by the unorganised sector is only catering to the 25 percent recyclables, as this waste can be sold to in the scrap market yielding high returns. As a result the organic and inert waste finds its way onto road sides and in open dumps.
Waste management as an industry is in the nascent stages in India with unorganised sector forming major
part of it. “The potential is unlimited in the sector and it can go on to experience even 500 percent growth every year. There is need of such facility in every town, every city in India but there is a scarcity of private companies in the sector due to lack of know how and funding. Banks are reluctant to provide loans to private players interested in the business and even the government is not too supportive of them,” said Manik, adding that the government should also help to improve the unorganised sector which is helping a lot in the sector by atleast collecting the garbage.
Started in 2005, the Noida-based company has a turnover of upto `1 crore and hopes to replicate the
Noida success in Gurgoan by implementing proper waste management practices, engaging the informal sector and utilising their skills in the process of collection of waste. About 90 percent of their business has come through word of mouth. “Our approach would be the same in Gurgoan and we would want our work to speak for ourselves,” said Mr Thapar. “We expect a positive response from the citizens of the city and are sure that they will assist us in insuring that Gurgoan is truly a millennium city, not just on paper but visibly on the ground,” he added.
MAMTA SHARMA (Economic Times)
mamta.sharma@timesgroup.com
AFTER scripting a success story in Noida, Eco Wise Waste Management, the only company in the country with a separate segregation and treatment site, is set to launch its waste management facility in Gurgaon in July this year.“We will be following Eco Wise Umbrella Model, that is collection, transportation, segregation, treatment and disposal,” said Manik Thapar , founder and CEO of Eco Wise. “Currently, we are in the process of locating land, on which we will build our organic waste treatment facility, along with a wear house to stock recyclable product,”Mr Thapar said.
Despite the bold leap that the city has taken in industry and business over the past decade, Gurgaon still lacksorganised waste management. With higher levels of economic growth, Gurgaon generates around 500-550 tons of waste every day, including residential, commercial and industrial discard. Explaining the concept, Mr Thapar said, “Collection of waste is only one part of the process. One of the major issues is treatment and disposal of waste.” A lot of this waste such as organic refuse can be converted into nutrient- rich compost utilising a simple process.
Another issue is of construction debris. This waste can be put to use in rural area where there are no roads built, and the same debris can be crushed and used for hardening the road surface, according to Eco Wise officials. In its initial stages, the company is looking to cover major hotels, malls and large corporate offices in
Gurgoan. “We are also in talks with some major real estate players to provide them with residential waste management services (door-to-door collection). A lot of interest has also been generated by large corporate to avail our services. As of now I can not mention any names, but the interest is enormous,” said Mr Thapar, a pioneer of waste management industry in India.
As per Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) estimates, every 1percent growth in the GDP (Gross domestic
Product) in the past is likely to result in a 3 percent growth in hazardous waste. Likening the situation
of similar growth in France, in order to tackle the problems of rapid economic waves that Gurgoan is witnessing, it becomes important for the satellite city to devise an effective strategy for hazardous waste management in the early stages itself.
Civic authorities in Gurgaon have seemingly failed in proper treatment and disposal of waste where the collection, transportation, treatment and disposal are done mostly by the unorganised players. As of now, the local waste-collector or house-helps dumps the waste in nearby open grounds or a convenient place and Municipality workers collect it on an irregular basis to dumps it in the landfills. No segregation or treatment takes place in the process. The valuables are extracted by rag-pickers while the rest (about 90 percent of the total) is burnt in the open. Worse, the waste is left scattered or completely ignored.
Volunteer or residential groups complain that apart from playing host to a number of disease, the waste lying
in the open reduces the aesthetic quality of the surroundings. “Most of the waste management is handled by amateur players,” said Anil, caretaker of a society in Nirvana Country in Sector 57. “Our main concern in dealing with the garbage is cleanliness, keep parking space unoccupied, and avoid a stinky atmosphere.”
Imran Malik, operations manager of Eco Wise agrees. “Lack of education and understanding of what can be
done with waste is a major handicap for the unorganised sector. We solve the problem by ensuring that the organic waste is treated and converted into compost along with ensuring that certain elements in inert waste, that most people would think are useless, can be put to use. In general, 80-85 percent of the waste we collect is put to use, rather than dumped.” According to Mr Malik, the demographic mix is a major reason that has lead to the growth of waste generation in the city. “Over the years people’s income has risen substantially along with their spending power. Increased consumption of FMCG goods means increased waste. Also, people have started eating out more, with more and more nuclear families popping up with both partners working; eating out or ordering take out has increased ten folds. All this adds to the generation of waste, and the more the people consume more the waste is generated,” he said.
The new model claims to ensures that only waste that cannot be recycled or put to any use would be disposed off in an authorised landfill or dumpsite. The composition of residential waste is large metros is 60 percent organic, 25 percent recyclables and 15 percent inert. The current process utilised by the unorganised sector is only catering to the 25 percent recyclables, as this waste can be sold to in the scrap market yielding high returns. As a result the organic and inert waste finds its way onto road sides and in open dumps.
Waste management as an industry is in the nascent stages in India with unorganised sector forming major
part of it. “The potential is unlimited in the sector and it can go on to experience even 500 percent growth every year. There is need of such facility in every town, every city in India but there is a scarcity of private companies in the sector due to lack of know how and funding. Banks are reluctant to provide loans to private players interested in the business and even the government is not too supportive of them,” said Manik, adding that the government should also help to improve the unorganised sector which is helping a lot in the sector by atleast collecting the garbage.
Started in 2005, the Noida-based company has a turnover of upto `1 crore and hopes to replicate the
Noida success in Gurgoan by implementing proper waste management practices, engaging the informal sector and utilising their skills in the process of collection of waste. About 90 percent of their business has come through word of mouth. “Our approach would be the same in Gurgoan and we would want our work to speak for ourselves,” said Mr Thapar. “We expect a positive response from the citizens of the city and are sure that they will assist us in insuring that Gurgoan is truly a millennium city, not just on paper but visibly on the ground,” he added.
MAMTA SHARMA (Economic Times)
mamta.sharma@timesgroup.com
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