siliconindia | | April 20194In the past few years, India witnessed increasing health issues arising due to poor waste management. The rising size of the landfi lls catching fi re in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata, and the garbage burning trapping increasing number of young generation and kids in the clutches of asthma and heart attacks, are no more trivial issues to be ignored. While India had Solid Waste Management policies framed since 2000, it seems that the whole country waited to take it seriously only when our Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. What followed next created history! From cleaning-up the streets, roads and infrastructure, to segregating the waste, people have started contributing their small efforts to make India a Zero Waste Nation. But we surely have years to go and reach where Sweden stands today (less than one percent of the country's trash ends-up in landfi lls). As India never had the history of segregating waste, all types of wastes end-up in the same bin, making it tough for the rag pickers to collect and segregate it for further processing at the waste management centers. While working on our current issue of `10 Most Promising Waste Management Service Providers ­ 2019', the waste management companies too raised this red fl ag. But they all believed that it is not just the responsibility of the government but all the stakeholders to educate, train and ensure zero waste. Hence, they not just provide solutions, but also train their customers as a social responsibility to make their country shine.From providing regular waste management solutions that transform waste to energy, to innovating new products to fi t clients' niche requirements, these companies can surely be your partner in your Swachhta Abhiyan. Read to know more about them.Do let us know what you think! Anamika SahuManaging Editoreditor@siliconindia.comEditorialFrom Educating to Ensuring Zero Waste, Waste Management Companies have Bigger Roles to Play siliconindia Vol 07 · Issue 9 - 4 · April 03, 2019 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Anamika Sahu Associate Editor Susila Govindaraj Editorial Team Ananth.V Archee Roy Avinash Roy Imelda Tarzarina Shefali Mathur Sophia Rohtagi Srrayvinya OLM Sujith Vasudevan Sushruth R Trisha Pragya VP - Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar Advertising Managers Editorial queries editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit https://www.siliconindiamagazine.com/subscribe/ or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com Cover price is Rs.150 per issue. Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2019 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.comVisualisers Vetrivel S Veena R Piddannavar Vimalraj MGroup Art DirectorAshok KumarNoidaAshu Sethi Garima Anand Circulation Manager Magendran Perumal Abinas Patnaik Felisha Rita Khirod Kumar Ashwini D Naik
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