An Environmental Study of Solid Waste Management System in Chandrapur City, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

Municipal solid waste management system in the cities of India are controlled and regulated at present by the Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000; Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016; as well as Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. These are the comprehensive guidelines and ready reckoner documents for the municipalities and corporations for 4,041 statutory towns and 3,894 census towns in India. The municipalities are preparing the Environmental Management Plan for the cities for better environmental management within and around the city area while all the municipalities, corporation, cantonments and every urban authority is bind to follow the strict environmental rules for maintaining the ecological stability in the vicinity of towns. Chandrapur City had been considered as the third most polluted city in India by the CPCB in 2009, having population of 320379 (2011). At present it is the sixth most polluted city and industrial cluster in a country. There was a moratorium on industrial establishment in the city since 2009–2016 because of pollution level. The pollution can be classified into air pollution, soil pollution, water pollution and other categories too. Solid waste management is a solution to curbing the pollution level. Many of the cities are not following the norms given by ministry. This paper is an effort to study the practice and plan of Chandrapur Municipal Corporation.