Curriculum Waste and Sanitation in India
Waste and Sanitation in India
The economics of keeping India clean - the scale of urban waste, Swachh Bharat's toilets and whether they're used, burning landfills, waste pickers, Indore's success, segregation rules, waste-to-energy, producer responsibility, manual scavenging, sewage treatment and paying for waste services.
- India's Growing Waste Problem How much waste Indian cities produce, where it goes, and why waste management is an economic as well as environmental challenge. 📄 Read-aloud
- Swachh Bharat and the Toilet Campaign How the Swachh Bharat Mission launched in 2014 built crores of household toilets to end open defecation, and why sanitation matters for health and economics. 📄 Read-aloud
- Are the Toilets Being Used? What surveys and researchers found about whether new toilets are used, why some people still defecate in the open, and the lessons for sanitation policy. 📄 Read-aloud
- Burning Mountains: Legacy Landfills How decades of dumped waste created giant landfills that catch fire and pollute, and how cities are trying to clear them through biomining. 📄 Read-aloud
- Waste Pickers: India's Hidden Recyclers How millions of informal waste pickers collect and sort recyclables, the economic value they create, and efforts to integrate them into formal systems. 📄 Read-aloud
- Indore: How a City Got Clean How Indore became India's cleanest city in the national ranking year after year, through segregation, collection, processing and citizen participation. 📄 Read-aloud
- Waste and Sanitation in India: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on India's waste, Swachh Bharat, toilet use, landfills and waste pickers. 5 questions
- Segregation at Source and the 2016 Waste Rules Why separating waste at home is the foundation of good waste management, and what India's Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 require. 📄 Read-aloud
- Why Many Waste-to-Energy Plants Struggle Why burning waste to make electricity has faced problems in India, from low-quality waste to pollution concerns, and when it can work. 📄 Read-aloud
- Making Producers Responsible for Their Waste How Extended Producer Responsibility rules make companies responsible for collecting and recycling packaging, plastics and electronics, and how the system works in India. 📄 Read-aloud
- Manual Scavenging and Sewer Deaths Why the banned practice of manual scavenging persists in India, the deaths of sanitation workers in sewers and septic tanks, and the push to mechanise. 📄 Read-aloud
- Sewage and Faecal Sludge: Where Does It Go? How much of India's sewage is treated, why rivers remain polluted, and how faecal sludge from septic tanks can be managed safely. 📄 Read-aloud
- Paying for Waste Services How cities fund waste and sanitation through user fees, taxes and revenue from recycling, the case for "pay as you throw", and a recap of the module. 📄 Read-aloud