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Chief Patron
Dr Ajay Mathur
Editor
Amit Kumar Radheyshayam Nigam
Editorial Board
Sumita Misra
Chief Electoral Officer-cum-Commissioner Election,
Government of Haryana
Rakesh Kakkar
Additional Secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs
Dr A K Tripathi
Director General, National Institute of Solar
Energy (NISE)
Content Advisors
Dr Shantanu Ganguly From the editor’s desk...
Dr P K Bhattacharya
Editorial & Design Team
Anupama Jauhry Waste, rather disposal and management of waste, appears regularly in media
Anushree Tiwari Sharma nowadays and all for the wrong reasons. And this waste comprises municipal
Abhas Mukherjee
Rajiv Sharma as well as industrial wastes. The disposal and treatment of waste can produce
Santosh Gautam emissions of several greenhouse gases (GHGs) which contribute to global climate
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change. The most significant GHG gas produced from waste is methane. As per
Production the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a large part of annual
Aman Sachdeva global anthropogenic methane produced and released into the atmosphere can
Marketing and Sales be attributed to the anaerobic decomposition of land filled waste. Methane is
Gitesh Sinha around 20 times more potent as a GHG than carbon dioxide. Wastewater, both from
Sanjeev Sharma domestic and industrial waste sources add to this. Countries like India, which are
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Head Office mainly agricultural-based economies, have many industries such as food and fruit
TERI processing, sugar industries, cattle and bird farming, agriculture export units, and
Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex food parks, etc. These industries produce a substantial amount of waste. However,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003
Tel. +91 (11) 2468 2100 or 2468 2111 all of these wastes have a huge potential of resource recovery, including energy,
Fax +91 (11) 2468 2144 or 2468 2145 which can then substitute fossil energy. Indeed, waste minimization and thereafter
Regional Centres its recycling is necessary to address not only global climate change but also local
Southern Regional Centre environmental concerns as well.
TERI, CA Site No. 2
4th Main, 2nd Stage Domlur Undoubtedly, from a circular economy perspective, there is no term as ‘waste’
Bengaluru – 560 071 because the so-called waste from a particular process can very well be a valuable
Email: terisrc@teri.res.in ‘resource’ for another one. And that is the approach being increasingly looked upon
North-Eastern Regional Centre as a cost-effective alternative to traditional waste management practices, especially in
TERI, Chachal Hengrabari
Express Highway, VIP Road urban and industrial sectors as well as along the agriculture value chain. The challenge
Guwahati – 781 036 of waste management becomes even more daunting if one takes into account the
Western Regional Centre projections of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in its
TERI, F-9, La Marvel Colony report on World Urbanization Prospects. The report, alluding to rapid urbanization,
Dona Paula, Panaji – 403 004 (Goa)
Email: teriwrc@goatelecom.com projects that by 2030, there would be 41 megacities—most of them in global South—
Affiliate Institutes and by 2050, the world will be two-thirds urban. Waste can become a rich resource for
TERI North America energy, especially if this dichotomy of effective waste management on the one hand
1152 15th Street NW Suite 300 and meeting the ever-growing energy needs on the other hand is to be reconciled
Washington, DC 20005 in a sustainable manner. May be this is how future megacities will meet their energy
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