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MOHUA ADVISORIES ON EFFECTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT

Focus: GS-III Environment and Ecology

Why in news?

Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched a series of advisories under the title ‘Saving Biodiversity through Effective Waste Management’.

Key Advisories

The three key advisories released included:

  1. Advisory on Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
  2. Advisory on Landfill Reclamation
  3. Consultative Document (draft) on On-site and Off-site Sewage Management Practices

The Ministry also released a toolkit for a communication campaign on faecal sludge management titled‘Malasur- The Demon of Defeca’ which aims to heighten the risk perception of faecal sludge.

Success of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U)

  • SBM-U was launched with a twin objective of making urban India Open defecation Free along with 100% scientific solid waste management.
  • Almost all urban India is now Open-Defecation-Free (ODF).
  • Scientific processing of solid waste, which stood at less than 20% at the start of the Mission in 2014, has more than tripled and now stands at 65%.
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