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local communities with the plastics, bottles and cans. pollution caused by
support of the Cities Alliance Plastics can be replaced smoking and throwing of
and Water and Sanitation by more sustainable millions of cigarettes and
Programme. It empowers the options like cloth/jute beedi butts.
slum population with social, bags, reusable bottles and
economic and environmental non-disposable utensils. • Recycle: Keeping in
justice and their relationship view its life cycle,
with the service agencies. • Reuse: The consumers various wastes can be
may be incentivised recycled into useful
Reducing Urban Footprint to use reusable paper, products. Construction
and Urban Wastes stainless steel, wood, and demolition waste
ceramic and bamboo can be recycled for
The urban footprint needs to containers, utensils, various structural and
be reduced so that it leads to bottles, bags, etc. non-structural uses.
travel reduction, economy Three bin recycling with
of services and conservation • Reduce waste, cut down separate bins for trash,
of agricultural areas. The the consumption of recyclable and compost
Indian cities offer scope of goods and packaged is essential for this.
densification, especially drinking water, go for Biotechnology, enzyme
along public transit corridors, disposable free parties based STP, bio-remedial
and by redevelopment of the and events. An important treatment, sludge gas/
brownfields. The urban eco- area of behaviour change energy recovery, vermi-
system has been transformed relates to abandoning the culture, fossilization and
by fourth industrial widespread practice of composting options can
revolution. Accordingly, chewing and spitting of be explored for waste
the urban processes need to tobacco, gutka and pan, treatment.
change which are compatible resulting into disposal of
to circular economy by millions of sachets every • Recover: The waste has
adoption of new technologies, day. The LiFE movement potential to yield energy,
such as digital blockchain, can help the citizens to fuels and raw materials
Land Administration Domain realise the health hazard for industry, buildings,
Model (LADM) framework, and environmental roads, etc. The organic
combinatorial and discrete
optimisation, algorithms, Figure 3: Strategy of 5 Rs for Waste Management
complexity theory, artificial
intelligence, big data, and
the ubiquitous cloud. The
following are the focus areas
of the LiFE Movement (Figure
3):
• Refuse: Whenever and
wherever possible, the
citizens should be helped
to choose items that are
not packaged in plastic,
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