 Alang Ship Breaking Yard – › political economy (poverty of labourer) + › environmental hazard Waste: any material that is not needed by the owner, producer, or processor.

 Domestic waste  Industrial waste (oil, food industry)  Construction waste  Extractive activities waste (e.g. mining slurry)  Plastic waste  Agricultural waste  Biomedical waste  E-waste  Natural disasters, conflicts, wars..

 Seperation of waste (homes)  Landfills  Reuse (e.g. ragpicker economy)  Incineration

 Located above water table  Not geologically active  Not near residential community  Land inexpensive  Accessible to transport  Trained staff for supervision

 Dumped into water bodies (e.g. river, sea)  Exported to Developing countries  Actually: Should be treated before disposal  1972 London Dumping Convention

 Left uncollected  Quite often not seperated (biomedical, wet, dry all put together)  94% that is collected dumped on land  Incineration, burning – causes pollution  5% composted

 Separate Garbage at source  Separate collection schedules  Division of spoils (eg sale of recyclable material)  Compost organic waste  Involvement of community  Livelihood of local poor safeguarded (e.g. recyclable material for ragpickers)

 Tanneries  Distilleries  Thermal Power  Industrial waste (e.g. DDT, effluents)

 Common Effluent Plants (set up in very few places (e.g. some tanneries in TN)  Recycling (reusing, energy bricks etc)  Reducing waste production › Good example: Kalundborg, Denmark