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The Union Government will soon announce amendments to the municipal solid waste management regulations aiming to lay down practicable guidelines and time frames for waste reduction, a senior official said. Inaugurating the “FICCI Environment Conclave 2008,” Meena Gupta, Secretary of Environment Ministry, said “the government is engaged in revisiting the waste management regulations to look at suitable amendments. The amendments would be announced soon.”
She said urban local bodies and the private sector needed to explore projects that could become eligible for Clean Development Mechanism. “Today, there are only a handful of projects from the waste management sector under the CDM. But there is a huge untapped potential in the urban areas, where projects can not only be developed in waste management but can also be bundled together with other municipal services that have an emission reduction potential.”
The official stressed on private sector participation as well on recycling to address the issue of solid waste. - PTI
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