Smart Waste Management under Smart City Mission – Its Implementation and Ground Realities

Abstract

This paper is looking the smart waste management under smart city mission. What are the objectives of smart waste management? Are people aware of it? Also try to understand the implementation of waste management from small town to the metropolitan city by the local government, NGO’s of that city as well as peoples of that city. Metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Indore, Mysore, Bangalore, etc. As we are seeing facing a lot of issues for the implementation of waste management. Therefore from this paper, I want to see what are the new solutions smart ideas are setting up those cities municipalities for waste management which is one of the neglected topic as well as issue. Smart waste management concept nowadays emerges a new phenomenon and it is mostly applied in the Metropolitan cities where the production of the waste is high and management of waste and awareness about the waste management in between the people is very low. Smart waste management helps to reduce the waste, create waste to energy source also it helps to keep the environment clean and neat. All the city’s urban local bodies depending upon the available technology have to spend the money and innovate the new concept of waste management that is the main purpose of smart waste management. This paper is based on the secondary as well as primary data. Secondary data took from the newspaper, article, etc. And primary data based on the observation and survey that did in 2016 and recent in Mumbai. At the end in the discussion try to show the difference between small-town waste management and Metropolitan cities challenges and how to manage it and then gave the recommendation for solid waste management improvement.