Cement Energy and Environment

Enhancement of Biodiversity with Waste Management at Clinkerisation Unit, Narsingarh, Damoh (M.P.) Dr. Ani/ Kumar Trivedi . Head - Environment & Safety He1delbergCement India Ltd., Damoh (M. P.) E-mail: anil.trivedi@heidelbeJgcement.in Abstract: Proper waste management is a vital key for environmental sustainability. Waste is nothing but an unmanaged resource. If waste is managed properly then it may be converted into valuable resource. But if not, then, it may create a lot of problems . Growing economy, rapid increase of populations , fast industrialization and escalation of living standards of society have significantly hastened the generation of municipal waste . People are facing various kinds of difficulties, who are living nearby dump yard area like contamination of ground water, polluted air, odor nuisance, food poisoning, epidemic episodes, increasing the strength of disease carriers. Biodiversity like rats, snakes, dogs, cows, flies, birds, and other reptiles and scavengers are greatly attracted to the poorly managed and exposed garbage sites that can be affected adversely and further can be a carrier of various health diseases. Loads of waste conta ining plastic and chemicals may lead to the fire and smoke and cause health hazards in case of burning. Appropriate waste management leads to control the various environmental issues, protects the biodiversity of the area and reduces the health problems. In the present article details is explained for the project of biodiversity enhancement with waste management, implemented at Clinkerisation Unit, Narsingarh. Old dump yard is cleaned , reshaped and converted in to rainwater reservoir. In addition to this, a systematic municipal solid waste management system is also implemented. Keywords: Waste, Bird, Cement Kiln, rainwater, Municipal Solid Waste Management, Biodegradable & Non-bio-degradable, Water Pond, Narsingarh 1.0 Introduction Currently Municipal Solid Waste Management is a burning issue for every urban and rural areas of entire world. Generally people adopted the practice to throw the solid waste in low lying area without any planning and management. However, general method of solid waste management requires lots of investment, huge area of land, proper planning and machineries. This is a time to think differently for solid waste management because of unavailability of the additional land for the dumping of garbage. People involved in the solid waste management faced various kinds of problems by adopting the same method for all kind of waste i.e. biodegradable and non– biodegradable, which contained with different characteristics and compositions. Single method for solid waste management is not sufficient; it requires various process & technolog ies for different kind of waste materials. Consecutively, Waste can be converted into valuable resources; such as biodegradable solid waste can be converted into the manure and non-biodegradable solid wastes having high calorific value like plastic, paper, and cardboard, pieces of wood, rubber etc. can be inci nerated at high temperature in cement kiln as a fuel substitute. Generation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) may be broadly classified as follows: • Domestic Origin: Kitchen waste (left over/ rejected food materials), paper, plastic, rags, metal, rubber, glass, cardboard , expired medicine, containers of medicine/disinfectants, etc. • Street Side Waste: Street/ sweepings comprising dust, grit, dry leaves, papers, plastic, rubber, glass, cardboard, metal-pieces, etc. junk containers, carcass of animals and so on. • Markets Origin: Paper, plastics, cardboard , packing materials, etc. • Commercial/Institutional Origin: Paper, plastic, cardboard, packing material etc. from shops and offices, left over food from hotels/restaurants and miscellaneous items. 16