LUCKNOW: With the Cabinet giving nod to the Uttar Pradesh Solid Waste (Management, Operation and Sanitation) Rules on Thursday, it will soon be compulsory for households to segregate waste at source and for urban local bodies to implement door-to-door waste collection.
The new rules also set penalty for violating the provisions of the Solid Waste Management Rules-2016, including littering in public areas, making pets defecate in public places and throwing construction waste on the roadside. All the waste will have to be segregated at source into three categories — biodegradable, non-biodegradable and domestic.
It will have to be deposited in different bins as per their category. Waste like sanitary pads and diapers will have to be disposed of as per directions of the specific local body.
An official said the state government was forced to declare these rules since it was observed that the local bodies had not declared bye-laws as necessitated under the 2016 rules. “The bye-laws were necessary for implementation of the solid waste management rules, but neither the urban local bodies formulated these bye-laws nor were not implementing them satisfactorily. As a result, the purpose of the SWM Rules was being defeated and no sanitation was being maintained,” the official said.
The state produces 14,468 tons of solid waste each day and the responsibility for collecting and managing it vests with urban local bodies.
Among the non-biodegradable waste, the local body will have to identify what is recyclable and ensure that it is supplied to authorised recyclers. The biodegradable or wet waste should either be composted or treated through bio-methanation for production of fuel.
In areas where waste is different from what is specified for the three domestic categories is produced, like butcheries and meat shops, waste has to be stored in separate closed bins and should not be mixed with other waste.
