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Environmental Health
The activities of single-source waste generators contribute to clean and health neigh-
bourhoods. The NGOs carrying out composting activities in neighbourhoods are not
conducive to cleanliness.
Looking at occupational safety and health aspects, the truck drivers- farmers alliance
affected the health of the workers and animals negatively. The NGOs paid some atten-
tion to safety aspects. Safe final disposal was not taken into explicit account in these
forms of co-operation.
10.7. CONCLUSIONS
One of the main problems in organic waste reuse and recycling is the lack of source
separation, which affects the quality of the organic waste routed through the municipal
waste stream negatively. This prevents effective use of a major portion of municipal
waste generated. Efforts should be put into promoting locally acceptable methods of
separation. That there is a potential market for ‘pure’ organic waste and
well-composted waste is indicated by the existing private sector activities of the
single-source bulk generators of waste who have little difficulty in having their waste
removed through private trucks. The study in chapter 11 also supports this conclusion.
Composting organic waste remains a difficult technical process in the prevailing
conditions in Hyderabad. Large-scale public sector composting has proven financially
unviable and without a market for the product, while small-scale decentralised
composting with the help of NGOs and CBOs remains complex, and not well accepted
by local residential communities.