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National Conference on Waste to Energy
Source: Toxics Link, Date: , 2015
Toxics Link conducted a national
conference on Waste to Energy on 30th March 2015 at India Habitat Centre,
New Delhi. The conference focused on the viability of the waste to energy
plants in the context of India. Mr. Ravi Agrawal, Director, Toxics Link in his
inaugural speech pointed out that the engagement with people is not much and
public debate is very narrow on the issue of waste-to-Energy. Capacity building
of Municipal Corporation is also lacking. He stressed on reducing overall
health environment risk from waste. He also highlighted other issues such as: option
of putting big centralized plant to reduce overall exposure throughout the
waste chain needs to be explored; waste
hierarchy and different ways of collecting waste should also be in place; increasing
dioxin efficiency, reducing centralized way of emission control, waste profile
data are all needed to be worked out and effect of multiple exposure sites like
dump site, recycling site, segregation site on environment and health should
also be reduced. Special address was made by Dr. Dieter Mutz, Director, GIZ,
where he shared experience of Germany on developing waste policy and compared
with the Indian scenario. Dr. Mutz briefed about the various technologies
available for Waste to Energy and their viability in the Indian context.
Technical details, preparedness of SPCBs, Industrial stand on the issue were
also discussed and presented during the conference. The conference was attended
by officials from ministry, municipal corporations, and State Pollution Control
Board, professors from institutes, industry representatives, EU delegates and
NGOs.
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