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Number__ 20

Workshop Name__ Sustainable Waste Management

Chair:

Sl.No. Name Title Organisation Country

1 Mr. Abhijit

Dasgupta

Principle

Secretary

Ministry of

Environment and

Forest, Govt. of

Karnataka

India

2 Mr. I.P.Gautam Municipal

Commissioner

Ahmedabad

Municipal

Corporation

India

3 Dr.Lakshmi

Raghupathi

Former Director Ministry of

Environment &

Forests (Govt. of

India)

India

4 Prof.D.K.Banerjee Retd. Professor School of

Environmental

Sciences, JNU, New

Delhi

India

5 Mr. Johan Bentick Consultant Euroconsult Matt

McDonald

Netherlands

6 Ms. Archana Dange Consultant Eurokids, Tamil

Nadu

India

7 Dr. Geeta Mehta President Hospital Infection

Society of India

India

8 Dr.K.S.Baghotia State Directorate of India

Programme

Officer

Health Services,

Govt of Delhi

9 Mr.Mahesh Pradhan United Nations

Environment

Programme

India

10 Dr.Shyamala Mani Programme

Director

Waste and Resource

Management,

Centre for

Environment

Education

India

11 Mr.M.Subba Rao Additional

Director

Ministry of

Environment &

Forests, GOI

India

Coordinator :

Dr. Shyamala K. Mani (Programme Director, Waste and Resource Management, Centre

for Environment Education)

Ms. Shubhangi Wankhede (Programme Co ordinator, Waste and Resource Management,

Centre for Environment Education)

Rapporteur:

Ms. Mamuni Pandit (Programme Officer, Waste and Resource Management, Centre for

Environment Education).

Days and Dates of Workshop

Monday to Thursday- 24th Nov. 07 to 27th Nov. 07

Purpose and context of workshop

The workshop was designed to focus on the present status and issues of Waste

Management and to develop a consensus that Waste Management is a problem cutting

across ‘developed-vs-developing’ country dichotomies, its manifestations vary from

place to place and need unique solutions appropriate to their contexts. It also aimed at

recognizing that waste is a resource misplaced, and therefore its ‘treatment’ rather than

‘disposal’ needs to be focused upon. The workshop provided a platform for the dialogue

between the scientists, engineers, practitioners and professionals regarding various

strategies towards sustainable waste management and to share the various facets involved

in sustainable waste management in the form of case studies and papers.

The overall aim of the workshop was to bring out the various challenges prevalent in the

implementation of the sustainable waste management and strategies to overcome them.

Main issues addressed.

Main issues discussed during the conference were as follows:

1. Issues and challenges in addressing waste management sustainably.

2. Technologies and alternatives of waste management.

3. Identified different approaches of waste management and standards of

performances.

4. Identified educational needs of different stakeholders.

5. Identified target groups for in-service training in WM and the channels to access

them.

6. Identified the minimum essential components of WM in different streams of

formal education at different levels.

7. Identified the pedagogical tools to implement an ESF strategy for WM.

Report on substance of workshop.

24th Morning session.

Welcome note by Dr. Shyamala Mani.

Dr. Shyamala Mani welcomed all the delegates who participated in 5 working groups

over the next 2 and a half days. The five working groups were

1. Sustainable Waste Management.

2. Education for Innovation and Technology.

3. Roadmap for creating a Research foundation to Support the DESD.

4. Youth: Trend setters for ESD.

5. Education for Sustainable Cities.

She introduced the structure of the workshop and the speakers of the session. She also

introduced the chairperson of the session, Padmabhushan Shri IshwarBhai Patel

(Director, Environment Sanitation Institute, India) and Chief Guest Mr. I. P. Gautam

(Municipal Commissioner, Ahmedabad, India).

Speaker 1. Mr. Lekhan Thakkar (Gujarat Urban Development Corporation,

Gandhinagar). His presentation on the Clean Development Mechanism drew the attention

of the audience to looking at making CDM and carbon credit system work for developing

countries. Gujarat has paved way and set up a model mechanism of working with 14

small municipalities to look at mitigation of green house gases generated for solid waste

management and looked at accessing technology through the CDM for these

municipalities.

Speaker 2. Mr. Ishwarbhai Patel (Environment Sanitation Institute, India) focused on

working the importance of the linkage between health and waste management. He

focused on his work on building toilet linked biogas plants that helped generate methane

used as cooking gas from human solid wastes.

Speaker 3. Mr. Mahesh Pradhan (United Nations Environment Programme) spoke to the

audience about the importance of 4th ICEE and the recommendations of which would

feed into the workshop on climate change happening at Bali in the near future. He also

launched the UNEP report called GEO 4 and said that towns and cities of Asia Pacific

have been surveyed for waste management and green house gas emissions and this

information is available in the report.

Speaker 4. Ms. Manvita Baradi (South Asia, International City Manager’s Association,

Ahmedabad) spoke on waste management and sustainable cities. She suggested that

waste management must be looked holistically starting from the humane angle of people

who generate waste, people who collect it formally and informally, right up to the city

managers.

24th Morning session after tea break

Speaker 5. Mr. Vijay Merchant (PlastIndia Foundation, India) spoke about the sources of

plastic in the society, components required for reuse and recycling of the same and the

practices followed by PlastIndia Foundation for plastic recycling.

Speaker 6. Mr. Axel Seamaan (Centre for Sustainable Development, India) presented his

study on sustainable urban waste management. He concluded that priority should be

given to waste segregation and waste recovery. And the rejects could be considered for

energy recovery/ energy generation.

24th Afternoon session

Speaker 7. Sunil Pandey (The Energy Research Institute, India) presented his work on e-

waste management. Mr. Sunil talked about the challenges, life cycle, and flow in e-waste

management, material remains and e-waste management scenario in Delhi. He also

emphasized on the harmful impacts of e-waste recycling on air, water and soil.

Speaker 8. Dr. Behera (Orissa Pollution Control Board, India) spoke about the status of

Hazardous Waste Management in Orissa, India and discussed about contaminated dump

sites. He suggested options/approaches of rejuvenating these sites.

Speaker 9. Dr. Bhagotia (Directorate of Health Services, Govt. of India, India) discussed

about Biomedical Waste Handling and Management Rules 1998 and equipments in use

for biomedical waste treatment and disposal and its monitoring.

Speaker 10. Dr. Jatin Dalal (ENVISION, India) presented scenario of biomedical waste

management in Surat and adjoining cities of Gujarat and highlighted the equipment,

infrastructure and collection methodology of Envision (common treatment facility,

Surat).

24th Evening Session

Speaker 11. Mr. Khadar Sahab (Andhra Pradesh Urban Services for poor, India)

presented case study of Suryapeth, Andhra Pradesh in solid waste management as a

replicable model of sustainable solid waste management by public-private partnership.

Speaker 12. Ms. Elisabeth V.D. Kerkhof, (Environmental Education Centre, MICMEC

Walcheren, The Netherlands) talked about twin city cooperation in Netherlands. She

emphasized the need for cooperation and twinning where corporations and municipalities

can learn and share finances as well as technologies and techniques.

Speaker 13. Ms. Ester Sanglas. (Catalan Society of Environmental Education, Barcelona

– Spain) talked about Selective Waste Collection and presented a study carried out in

Barcelona by Joan Subirats and emphasized the role of campaigning for education and

creating awareness in the community for selective waste collection.

Discussion:

There are two types of approaches towards sustainable solid waste management

a) Technical approach of management and

b) Change management approach.

And between the two, change management approach by education, motivation and

attitudinal change is to be taken into consideration.

25th Morning Session

Speaker 1: Mr. Ravi Agrawal (Toxic links, India): Presented Technologies and

Alternatives for Mercury Waste Management and Other Hazardous Waste Challenges.

He recommended that India should adopt a demand reduction policy. Countries must

regulate the use of mercury.

Speaker 2: Dr. Behra (Orrisa Pollution Control Board): Discussed Health Care Waste

Management in Orissa gave examples of how hospitals manage their biomedical waste in

different places in Orissa, India. He discussed the pros and cons of technologies and

treatments used. He recommended that the laws must be applicable to all hospitals, and as

industries are sometimes closed for non compliance, hospitals too should be closed down

for non compliance.

Speaker 3: Dr. Pruthvish (M.S.R. Medical College, India): Spoke on Hazards of

Biomedical Wastes and importance of evolving treatment procedures for liquid waste

treatment from hospitals. His presentation outlined the successful biomedical waste

management practice established by a private hospital in Bangalore.

Speaker 4: Dr. Shri Kumar (IMAGE, India): Discussed Indian Medical Associations

initiative in establishing IMAGE Common Treatment Facility and its technological and

financial inputs and the experience of covering whole of Kerala’s biomedical waste

management under IMAGE.

Speaker 5: Ms. Mamuni Pandit: (Centre For Environment Education, India): She shared

experience of how biomedical waste management can be done through a common facility

at a city level. The new treatment technologies and the system of collection and

transportation supported by a strong education and training component was what that

made the system work in Gulbarga.

Launch: The AAWAM (Achieving Action in Waste Management ) CD was released in

this session by Mr. Sudir Mital (Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests,

Govt. of India). This film documented CEEs experience in working in four pilgrim towns

namely Puri, Ujjain, Tirupati and Vrindavan.

25th Afternoon Session

The session recognised the need for innovations to solve environmental problems such as

waste management which are born in the interface of technology and society. Some

papers that had tried out new avenues and different methods at solving old and new waste

management problems were presented and discussed by the group.

Speaker 6: Ms. Deepika Upadhyay (Student Indian Institute Technology, India):

Presented her work in Endosulphan removal using r.Arrihzus, drew attention to POPs

such as Endosulphan rampant in the agricultural sectors even today.

Speaker 7: Ms. Wilma Rodrigues (Sahaas, India) spoke on Approaches for management

of e wastes – the Bangalore experience. This paper presented a successful e waste

collection system set up in the IT capital of India – Bangalore. The education programme,

awareness creation, setting up the system in industries and the final collection and reuse

was clearly discussed.

Speaker 8: Mr. Uday Bhawalkar (Bhawalker Ecological Research Institute, India):

Discussed ecological indicators such as nitrates to identify and solve ecological problems.

He had brought with him his invention of a fluid that would clean up any effluent with

which it was mixed.

Speaker 9: Dr. Sharad Kale (Homi Bhabha National Institute and Bhabha Atomic

Research Centre, India): Discussed the use of biogas for treating municipal solid waste

and his experience in setting it up in different municipalities in India.

Speaker 10: Dr. Ramanujam (Central Leather Research Institute, India) spoke about

biomethanation of municipal solid wastes with case examples.

Speaker 11: Mr. Daniel Mitrousidis, (ITSA, Australia) presented a new type of bin called

“BIOBIN”

25th Evening Session

This session focused on the need for starting habit formation as part of the environmental

education practices with preschool, schools and the youth so that these habits would

ensure a society which is conscious and compliant with sustainable waste management

practices.

Speaker 12: Ms. Gayle Seldon (Environmental Media specialist, Maldives): Discussed

the role of campaigning in the Maldives on the design and delivery of a National Waste

Strategy.

Speaker 13: Dr. Elizabeth V.D. Kerkhof (Environmental Education Centre, MICMEC

Walcheren, The Netherlands): Discussed her work in Srilanka on working with children

in schools and out of schools on setting up waste management project. She demonstrated

the lesson box for waste.

Speaker 14: Ms. Archana Dange (Eurokids, India): Discussed about the Garbage to

Gardens activity book that was developed at CEE and how it was used in schools and

also in pre schools.

Discussion:

1. Mercury use in all walks of life to be reduced.

2. Liquid waste management in hospitals is an area that requires clear rules and

guidelines for implementation.

3. Importance of making biomedical waste management a part of the curriculum in

medical courses.

4. This conference must discourage the setting up of waste businesses for the sake of

business as it will lead to generation of more wastes in order to run the business.

5. The integral relation of waste management to health risk must be made and

people must be educated to ensure that they participate in waste management.

6. Total solution for liquid waste management in hospitals is required.

7. Nitrates can be used in narrow streaming for treating effluents.

8. Society needs to be educated to minimize waste in every stream.

9. Innovative educational methods need to be developed and shared through a bank

which could be set up.

26th Nov 2007

Afternoon session

Speaker 1. Prof. Pruthvish (M.S.Ramaiah Medical College & Hospital, India), discussed

the importance of environment education in healthcare sector.

Speaker 2. Johan Bentick (Euroconsult MottMcdonald) shared his experience in Solid

waste management and water and natural resource management projects in India and

Srilanka. He emphasized the role of education in sustainable waste management and

concluded that the most effective way of training involves learning by doing.

Speaker 3. Geeta Mehta (Hospital Infection Society of India, India) Spoke about the

training needs and capacity building in medical education and discussed the components

of environment education in medical science’s curriculum.

Evening Session

Joint working session on ‘Building sustainable partnerships in waste management as

demonstrated by SEWA, Amul and Daman Ganga’-Tetra Pak special session, with

Sustainable waste management, Innovation and technology and Sustainable cities.

Chaired by Mr. H.S. Anand, I.A.S.Secretary, Urban Housing and Poverty Alleviation,

Govt of India & Mr. Abhijit Dasgupta, I.A.S. Principal Secretary, Dept of Forests,

Environment and Ecology, Govt of Karnataka.,

Speaker 4: Mr. Jaideep Gokhale and Mr. Amitdeep Singh (Tetra Pak, India) and Mr.

Tushar Shah (Daman Ganga Paper, India) presented the work done by Tetrapak for the

recycling of packing material and discussed the details of technological, financial and

social inputs in recycling industry. Demonstrated and discussed the salient

environmentally friendly features of the clean products made by Tetrapak.

Launch: Garbage to Garden and Environmental Science Books were launched by Mr.

H.S.Anand and Mr. Abhijit Dasgupta.

Discussion:

• Recognized the need for education for accident/disaster preparedness while

handling and managing waste.

• Acknowledge the need for creating awareness, educating, making information

available and encouraging need based R&D for safe resource recovery and

recycling of waste leading to sustainable waste management practices.

27th Nov 2007

Afternoon Session

Speaker 5: Mr. P.P.Vyas (Solid Waste Project Coordinator, Gujrat Urban Development

Corporation, India) shared experiences of municipal solid waste management in Rajkot

municipality, Gujarat.

Speaker 6. Mr. Parvaiz Ahmad (University of Kashmir, India) discussed about the

municipal solid waste management in Srinagar city. He shared the problems and

solutions of MSW and stressed the need of awareness and training on solid waste

management in Srinagar city.

Speaker 7. Mr. Shivam Chodhary (Student, NALSAR University of Law, India)

presented his work on Economic Instruments for managing municipal solid waste in India

a comparative study on legislation of solid waste management in United Kingdom,

United States and India.

Recommendations:

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WORKING GROUP ON EDUCATION FOR

SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT

The 4th International Conference on Environmental Education,

November 24 - 27 2007, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

This Working Group on Education for Sustainable Waste Management of the conference

would like to emphasise that all ESD educationists participating in this Group felt

1.1 The purpose of waste education or Education for Sustainable Waste Management is

to recognize and emulate the cyclic nature of all resource and waste management

found in nature.

1.2 That anywhere in the world, waste reduction in general is preferable to recovery of

materials or energy from waste.

1.3 That all over the world it is important to discourage dumping of municipal,

healthcare, biomedical, hazardous and other solid, liquid or gaseous waste in the

neighbourhood, habitations and vicinity of people especially those who are vulnerable

and weak. In other words all people should realize and recognise the NIMBY (Not in my

backyard) syndrome and find solutions, which are not insensitive to the needs of others.

1.4 It is ethical and imperative that the more privileged groups of society throughout the

world are sensitized towards the fact that there are many stakeholders in society who are

totally engaged in the collection, transportation and conversion of waste into various

products through which they make their living and hence effective and safe segregation

of hazardous and non-hazardous materials/waste at source and safe and effective transfer

of the non-hazardous waste/materials to those engaged in their collection, transportation

and conversion helps ensure the health and safety of these stakeholders who generally

belong to the less privileged sections of society.

1.5 We recognize the importance that the waste management plan of each urban/ rural,

semi-urban or semi-rural centre needs to be inclusive rather than exclusive of those who

depend on waste for their livelihood. The plan needs to promote safe and hygienic ways

of waste handling, sorting and conversion of waste and the community at large and

specially the policy makers and the regulators should ensure that such safeguards are

provided to the people involved in collection, transportation, storage, conversion or

disposal of waste.

1.6 That segregation of waste at source and an efficient system for collection, storage,

transportation and conversion of segregated wastes is essential to ensure the safety of not

only those engaged in the logistical part but also those in the utilization involving reuse

cum recycling processes/ industries and the general citizenry because the quality of

products from unsegregated and contaminated waste/materials will have repercussions

not only on the producers and manufacturers of such products but on the whole

community and its future generations.

1.7 Various pandemics such as Cholera, HIV, Hepatitis B, SARS, Bird Flu and certain

types of cancers are often due to improper management of various types of waste such as

human excreta, healthcare waste, laboratory waste, animal waste and highly hazardous,

toxic and radioactive waste. We recognize the importance of preventing indiscriminate

waste management, reuse and recycling for which people need to be educated on the

various legislations throughout the world and in their own countries besides universal

methods and techniques promoted through the UN system and the governments of their

own countries and states

1.8 We recognize the need that since Climate change is an imminent danger that faces

humanity, all behaviour including insanitary collection, storage, transportation and

conversion technologies which are known to lead to the production of GHGs need to be

discouraged through awareness, education, sensitization and training programmes. CDM

models adopted for this, if at all, should however be sensitive to the various needs of the

stakeholders and should not be solely based on earnings from CERs ignoring the loss of

livelihood, hazardous and toxic emissions, degradation of the environment through

unsustainable and one-sided techniques, technologies supported through skewed

subsidies and promotion campaigns.

1.9 Acknowledging the long term consequences of accidental and inadvertent

mishandling of waste, we emphasize the need to create awareness for sector-specific

waste and health hazards associated with them.

2.0 Awareness, Orientation, Sensitization, Training, all speak of the very important need

of all citizens of this world whether old, young, male, female to be conscious and

committed towards conserving and preserving the vital systems of our planet and

promote the waste and material management towards reducing impact and increasing the

beneficial effects.

To achieve the above, it is suggested that education at various levels and for various

target groups is adopted based on the following principles and tenets:

2.1 Reuse, Recycling and Recovery engaging Citizens, NGOs, Industry and

Government

2.2 Waste of one process is often a resource for another. Hence they be regarded as

resource rather than waste

2.3 Reuse of permissible items is to be promoted and encouraged wherever

appropriate and feasible. Certain healthcare waste, toxic substances or containers

should not be reused and the classification of these should be clearly demarcated &

advised

2.4 Only appropriate environmentally sound and safe technologies are to be used for

waste processing and reprocessing.

2.5 Education and empowerment of people is to be achieved to enable them to assess

technology, make informed choices and implement those, based on need, location,

situation and feasibility. Selection of technologies should be based on its potential to

prevent pollution, degradation of the environment, resource and energy recovery to

the extent it is safe, environmentally sustainable and leads to improvement in

livelihoods, health & happiness of the community.

2.6 The total environmental impact of the waste treatment technologies must be

ascertained before promoting or adopting them for sustainable waste management.

Communities who run the risk of being adversely affected by improper collection,

storage, conversion or disposal or any other management practice need to be

informed, educated and empowered to benefit from appropriate redressal mechanisms

such as rights to compensation, rehabilitation etc. and

2.7 We recognize the need for education for accident/disaster preparedness while

handling and managing waste.

2.8 Guidelines regarding environmental impact assessment, environmental indicators

need to be developed and disseminated. We recognize that training needs to be

provided towards the same for not only the specific target groups but also for other

stakeholders who can champion the cause of a safe and sustainable environment.

2.9 Safe disposal options and their impacts should be researched and validated before

widespread dissemination and implementation. These should be included even in the

primary school curriculum so that children from a very young age learn to recognize

that waste management in a sustainable and earth friendly manner is possible and

should be consciously pursued.

3.0 Continuous R&D activity should be pursued for developing innovative

technologies, which should be field- tested before application . In-house waste

utilisation technology development should be encouraged.

3.1 We understand that effective monitoring of all environmental parameters in reuse,

recycling and disposal systems at regular intervals as prescribed by the regulatory

agencies, need to be widely disseminated and interpreted to enhance public

awareness.

3.2. Recognizing the emergence of new waste streams requiring different abatement

strategies, we recognize the need for appropriate legislations to regulate and promote

the development of appropriate technologies. 3.2 Specific awareness and training

programmes on legislation and regulation are required for different target groups.

3.4 Forums need to be created to share experiences and resources, to replicate

appropriate waste management initiatives through projects such as twinning, sector-

wise co-operation, peer learning and competitions.

3.5 Recognizing the need for decentralised monitoring & assessment, education and

training to promote and facilitate the setting up of regional and local information

centres needs to be encouraged.

The process of Education for Sustainable Waste Management comprises following

parameters:

A: Social : coming together of waste generators, participatory planners, natural leaders,

implementers and educators.

B: Organisational /Institutional: civil society, private sector, governments, voluntary

organizations institutions.

C: Educational (Capacity Building):awareness, information network, media, public

partnerships and participation and curricular and co-curricular initiatives.

D: Cooperational (Dissemination & Documentation): Private, Public Partnerships

(PPP) with and independent of NGOs, Waste information networks, clearing houses,

Waste bank and waste exchange E. International: International treaties & conventions,

International Vigilance and Activists Forums, Federation of indigenous communities,

youth, women, children, for peace and international understanding.

The working group 20 of the 4th ICEE conference recognizes and recommends

actions for

• Creating awareness, motivation and a change in the attitude of the people to

reduce waste generation, as the first and most imperative step towards building a

society committed to sustainable resource management including reduced

consumption and better waste management. For this education is needed in many

aspects.

HOW:

Educating and creating awareness amongst children, youth, teachers, NGO, civil

society, media, citizens, industry, local governments and all other stakeholder

groups who generate, collect, handle and treat waste.

The Education undertaken needs to be participatory and bottom up, with all

stakeholders helping in the identification of the problems, alternative solutions,

making informed choices, selection of the best solutions to be implemented,

thereafter designing, planning and executing the alternative action and solution

towards building a sustainable society.

We acknowledge the need for

• creating awareness, educating, , making information available and encouraging

need based R&D for safe resource recovery and recycling of waste leading to

sustainable waste management practices

HOW:

• Documenting existing technologies, evolving standards to evaluate the efficiency

of technologies required for management of different kinds and quantities of

wastes, focusing on the technology that requires least energy, water usage, having

least pollution potential and through establishment of effective, reuse, recycling,

treatment and disposal systems.

• Engaging universities and academia for initiating and supporting research.

• Supporting stakeholders to develop appropriate educational material and evolving

systems to field test and evaluate educational material.

• engaging students, educational institutions, voluntary organizations and &

citizens

HOW:

1. Create awareness; develop programmes for Schools, Colleges, Universities and

all institutions of learning for generating less waste. Creating awareness within

the campus and in the society for less wastage & greater resource segregation.

Schools& colleges to participate in awareness campaigns to spread the message to

households, official and commercial establishments. Schools, Colleges and

Universities to be models of zero waste generation & management systems.

Students to be involved in campaigns to reduce waste generation, safe storage of

the waste in a segregated waste collection system, setting up of paper & other

recycling units, composting units for biodegradable wastes with an aim to achieve

zero waste in their educational institutions and habitations.

2. Capacity building of citizen groups, neighbourhood committees, NGOs to be able

to spread specific messages in their community against insanitary practices,

preventing/reducing waste generation, segregation of waste/resource at source and

understand the importance of waste management and its linkages to health.

3. Set up a help desk through the web and regional waste information support

/information clearing house to help citizen groups evolve awareness and action

projects to solve their problems of waste management perhaps through a

wikiwastenet – a web based sharing system which would be moderated but would

be made as flexible as possible.

4. Document successful waste management educative campaigns Documentation of

best practices/ best practicable means with an inclusive rather than exclusive

approach in waste management at domestic, commercial, industrial, biomedical,

hazardous levels through consultative processes in all countries of the world.

Time tested traditional practices that are in place over centuries for dealing with

different kinds of wastes to be specially examined in the process.

5. Create a bank of material that could be developed in local languages and adapted

to local conditions.

6. Organize Seminars, Conferences, Audio and Video Conferences to ensure

discussion, understanding and sharing of experiences from all over the world and

allow lessons learnt need to be documented and disseminated. Documentation

centres, Displays, Exhibitions and Museums need to be supported to demonstrate,

delineate and explain some of the well documented and accepted lessons.

7. All communication for waste management need to be designed appropriately in

accordance with the target audiences by using a grassroots approach to material

development.

8. Journalists, mass media, print and electronic media need to be supported with

appropriate information regarding good practices for waste management through

networking, publications and training programs.

9. Investing in capacity building of environmental educators to enable them to

conduct participatory programmes, concerted planning, demonstrative action

projects, supportive local action groups, helping in formation of committees,

sustaining collaborative action, facilitation of dialogue with local authorities like

municipal bodies or regulators, helping groups access to information about

alternative technologies and supporting their implementation processes and

ensuring appropriate monitoring for sustainable waste management.

10. Capacity building for identified local, national and international training institutes

to enable them to conduct regular training programmes. The institutes need to be

facilitated to develop standardised training modules. International cooperation

from international agencies could be solicited for the same.

11. Citizens need to be educated, and empowered with information and materials to

monitor and manage sustainable waste management in their neighbourhoods and

habitats.