Achieving Action in Waste Management
The project on “Achieving Action in Waste Management in the Ecocities” (AAWaM), initiated under the ASEM Programme, has the objective of identifying and implementing environmentally and economically sustainable strategies for municipal solid waste management in the identified cities of the EcoCity Project. The initiative aims to generate awareness and facilitate community participation in solid waste management in the cities including involving NGOs to work in the identified demonstration areas and in establishing appropriate technologies to maximize the recycling and reuse for the selected streams of waste. Four towns namely, Tirupati, Puri, Ujjain and Vrindavan are covered under the project.
Workers dressed up for cleanliness
drive in Vrindavan
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School Band in the Environmental Awareness Rally in Vrindavan
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Awareness Programmes on the World Environment Day in New Delhi
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Cleanliness drive in Vrindavan
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Painting Competition for School
Children in Tirupati
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Environmental Awareness Rally in Puri
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Through the project, municipal solid waste management systems are targeted to be introduced facilitating waste segregation, provision of adequate facilities for storage, collection and transportation of waste, treatment, recycle and reuse of waste, reduced menace of stray dogs, pigs and cows and mobilizing local finances for operation and management of municipal solid waste management system.
The main stakeholders are:
- Overall control of the EcoCity Project: ASEM Programme (Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India; GTZ)
- Supported by Small Grants Programme, Global Environment Facility, UNDP
- Implementation Centre for Environment Education, Identified local level NGOs
- Towns covered Tirupati, Puri, Vrindavan, Ujjain
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