Section 42 in Punjab Urban Planning and Development Building Rules, 2018
42. Sustainable waste management .
- Zero waste is a concept of waste management and planning approaches that emphasize waste prevention as opposed to end waste management. This means restructuring production and distribution systems, designing and managing products and processes to systematically follow the rule of 3R i.e. Reduce, Re-use and Re-cycle, the volume of waste, to conserve and recover all used resources, and therefore, eliminating all discharges to landfills, and prevent air, water and land pollution.Zero waste/ land-fill can be achieved by adopting systematic approach of segregation at source by planning, by collection facilitation and most importantly by creating public awareness.The green waste can be converted into fuel cakes, kitchen waste into manure, construction and demolition waste into bricks, plastic waste into oil, paper, glass and steel back into the same and all residual inert materials can also be converted into bricks. Achieving zero land-fill is more conveniently possible, if -(a)the collection is made from house to house and some segregation is done at household level;(b)separate wet and dry bins must be provided at the ground level;and(c)the recycling is done at decentralized.For Plot area 500 sq.m and above, the composting of biodegradable waste such as kitchen waste, garden waste etc. is mandatory. They should not be allowed to send their biodegradable waste to landfill. Final product after composting i.e Humus or Black Gold should be used as manure for green area within their complexes or sites.
