Smart Enviro Systems: Succeeding Conventional Waste Management with a Decentralized Approach

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Smart Enviro Systems: Succeeding Conventional Waste Management with a Decentralized Approach

Post 2000’s Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) Rules being ended up on a blind alley, it took 14 years for our country to declare perpetual war on Solid Wastes. The launch of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) in 2014, and stringent revision of MSW Rules in 2016 have finally mandated the requirement of in-house waste management facility for all the complexes generating more than 100 kg of waste per day and every new development with more than 20,000 sq.m. built area. According to a report, the waste management market in India is expected to be worth $13.62 billion by 2025, and this in turn widens the horizons for new innovations and initiatives in the sector. Foresaw this opportunity to permeate the crater in the Indian solid waste management system even before the launch of SBA was a trio...