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Sustainability, Health, and Environment
Published in R. Ganesh Narayanan, Jay S. Gunasekera, Sustainable Material Forming and Joining, 2019
Radha Goyal, Ashish Jain, Shyamli Singh
In contrast to the present situation of waste management in India, according to the future projections made by Niti Aayog of India, the waste generation would reach up to ~165 million tons/year by 2031 and ~up to 436 million tons/year by 2050. Although these projections are on conservative side, keeping 1.33% annual per capita waste generation growth rate, to accommodate this huge amount of waste generated, about 23.5 × 107 cubic meter of landfill space or 1,175 hectare of land/year will be required by 2,031 and 43,000 hectares for landfills piled in 20 meter height by 2050 if ULBs in India continue to rely on landfilling to dispose the solid waste (Joshi and Ahmad, 2016). If the annual growth in per capita generation of waste will become 5%, landfill area required for disposal of waste could be manifold as per the records of CPCB (2013). In a business as usual scenario, India does not have the capacity to dispose of these enormous quanta of wastes properly.
Petrochemicals Industry in Developing Countries
Published in M. Brett Borup, E. Joe Middlebrooks, Pollution Control in the Petrochemicals Industry, 2018
M. Brett Borup, E. Joe Middlebrooks
The need for environmental regulation of petrochemical production has been recognized in some developing countries. Tewari et al. (1980) described pollution control efforts in the petrochemical industry in India, Industry in India is concentrated in a few limited areas such as Baroda, Bombay, Calcutta, and Kanpur, The Water/Air Pollution (Prevention and Control) Act, 1974/78 and the constitution of central and state boards for water pollution control contain regulations designed to protect the environment from industrial pollutants in India. Tewari et al. (1980) noted that proper waste management in India has not only helped abate pollution problems but has also improved economic viability of various industries when the most efficient and economical pollution control facilities were used.
An interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and decision-making trail and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method approach for the analysis of barriers of waste recycling in India
Published in Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 2018
Ankur Chauhan, Amol Singh, Sanjay Jharkharia
In view of the above statistics, there is an urgent need to have sufficient number of waste recycling units for effective waste management in India. However, there are a number of limiting factors that prevent involvement of private players in this area. Hence, the present work attempts to identify the critical factors that prevent waste recycling from becoming a lucrative business for small industrialists and big corporate houses in India. In this study, interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and decision-making trail and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) have been used to analyze and compare the barriers. The novel contribution of the present study could include the identification of 15 barriers of waste recycling industry from the literature and field survey; the filtration of these barriers using the multicriterion decision-making (MCDM) approaches of ISM and DEMATEL, respectively; and the suggestions to policy makers, on the basis of the results obtained, for encouraging the participation of private players in formal waste recycling.