Short Note on Indore – Global Model for Waste Management

Indore city is one of the big cities in India and has been named the cleanest city in India for record third time in Swachh Survekshan 2019. The city has managed to segregate 100% waste at source and successfully managed the organic waste through composting and other methods. The better implementation of cleanliness programs by Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) had led to cooperation and participation from citizens. The IMC is a global model for the world especially big cities where waste management is a huge task due to quantity of waste and number of people needed for its handling. The success of the IMC can be attributed to following steps:

• Information, education and communication (IEC): This is key to behavioral change in the primary stakeholders-the citizens.
• Waste generation and segregation at source and at bulk in collection centers: Door to door collection of waste in segregated form of dry waste and wet waste. Special attention is given to hazardous or biomedical waste.
• Waste collection and transportation: the waste is collected from all the sources and reaches a central facility where data is gathered from different localities and assessed.
• Waste processing: The wet waste is sent to a central facility for composting and dry waste such as hazardous or biomedical waste is sent to incinerators. The waste is also used to create bio-compressed natural gas (bioCNG) that is being used to run vehicles in the city.