Comprehensive Action plan for plastic waste management
Swachh Survekshan-2023 toolkit prescribes the ULBs to prepare a comprehensive action plan for plastic waste Management (with a share of 3.31% under SLP).
The comprehensive action plan for plastic waste Management should include the following 5 components.
Plastic waste assessment by sources:
- What is the percentage of plastic in waste stream?
- What is the composition of different types of plastics?
- How much plastic is handled by informal sector?
Implementation of SUP ban
- What is the quantity seized and fine collected?
- What alternatives to plastics are/will be made available?
- What is future strategy for the SUP ban implementation?
Awareness generation
- What IEC activities are planned/conducted?
- How social media is used for promotion?
- How many Clean -up drives conducted/planned?
Formalization of waste pickers and scrap dealers
- Have you mapped scrapdealers and wastepickers in city?
- What social benefit schemes you will provide to them?
Setting up a plastic waste management (PWM) facility
- How do you track plastic waste generated?
- How do you plan to process the plastic waste?
- Have you tied upwith recycler or waste management agency?
- Are you working with companies under EPR?
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