Stakeholders from every level of the waste supply chain and resource recovery system spent a fruitful day together, exploring newer ways to tackle existing and emerging streams of waste. Municipal officials and civic engineers from multiple urban local bodies presented their solid waste success models for others to emulate. Backed by data and scientific methods, these ULBs are leading the way to zero waste in urban Indian.
With biomining and bioremediation dominating the conversation on clearing legacy waste, experts on this subject spoke about practical ways to achieve a zero-landfill status. Interspersed with this were tech talks by industry leaders who possess the technical expertise and equipment to realise these goals.
Coming to the private sector, sustainability heads of corporate entities stepped up to the plate to share how they have taken the responsibility of reaching zero-waste operations. Accountability, data and traceability dominated this discussion.
With a ban on single use plastics and more to come, the session on ways to implement plastic waste management rules was full of possibilities, innovation and consensus on the way forward.
