INVOLVMENT OF NGOs :
During the recent years, NGOs have taken up initiatives to work with local residents
to improve the sanitation. The NGOs have been organizing surveys and studies in
specified disciplines of social and technological sciences and came up with ideas
and scheme supported by unbiased analysis of facts and figures. In the field of
garbage management, such studies are useful in identifying areas of commercial
potential to attract private entrepreneurs.
NGOs can play an important
role in segregation of waste, its collection and handing over to local authorities.
They can also help in bringing up the awareness and consciousness for good sanitation.
Through such programmes, NGOs can help in:
- creating
mass awareness, ensuring public participation in segregation of recyclable material
and storage of waste at source;
- ensuring
public participation in community based primary collection system;
- organizing
ragpickers for collection of recyclable material at the community level;
- providing
health education to the ragpickers and suggesting tools for safety;
- providing
employment through organizing door to door collection of waste; and
- encouraging
minimization of waste through in-house backyard composting, vermiculture and biogas
generation etc.
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