Eventually what needs to happen will happen, because there are very strong foundations. The Swachh Bharat Mission will take a course of recycling policy, which is guided by global environmental practices with collective environmental responsibility. The ownership of this correct course lies not only with environmental bodies like MOEF, CPCB, NGT, et al., But also with civic bodies of every kind including the high courts or supreme courts, local, state and central governments.
This will result in source segregation modalities adaptation primarily and everything corrected accordingly. The scope of work of all daily door to door collection will be only organic waste management, as we see a few tenders now. The dry waste collection agencies are not there and protocols need to be promoted from central SBM, will happen with the realisation in time to come. The tenders in ambiguous form like the one in SDMC for PWM,EWM will become more rational and correct in time to come with experience and information. The emission norms will be primary criteria for the W2E projects, and will not follow the path of compromised online emission systems of water and air of BMW or STPs. The wards achieved for DTDC will reflect the wet waste management only after source segregation and the compost will talk of quality first, as it is handled by user agencies like horticulture, farmers, forest and fertilizers scheduling quality and production cycles as per their need.
The systems development will go on and development drivers will also evolve more. The resistance by wasted interest with ignorance and manipulations always subsides as the right path forces itself and course correction always happen.
speed needs to be determined!