Integrated Solid Waste Management for Pune, India

Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) attempts to address all critical solid waste streams (e.g. Municipal Solid Waste, Biomedical Waste, Plastic Waste, E-Waste, Industrial Hazardous Waste etc) in a strategic  manner, focusing on Reduce, Recycle, Recover (3Rs) and considering the life cycle. 

Dr.Prasad Modak and team at EMC worked under a contract with UNEP International Environment Technology Centre (IETC) for Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in 2007-2008 to develop an ISWM Action Plan. This Plan was developed following "Vision to Action" process involving more than 150 stakeholders through six thematic workshops; supported by awareness raising and training programmes. A spreadsheet based computer model, captioned SIMWaste was developed and used to establish various scenarios and assess effectivenss of the proposed management measures. The PMC is now implementing many of the projects and programmes that were identified and developed in the ISWM Action Plan.

Visit ISWM section under Publications to access the various resources developed under this project.

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