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World Bank`s waste management dangerous and costly
New Delhi, Nov 24: The World Bank group is promoting a dangerous, costly and unsustainable method of treating waste which will have adverse impact on the developing countries, a study by an international NGO has said.
New Delhi, Nov 24: The World Bank group is promoting a dangerous, costly and unsustainable method of treating waste which will have adverse impact on the developing countries, a study by an international NGO has said.
"Despite the known health hazards and extreme economic burdens of incineration, the World Bank Group (WBG) continues to promote this polluting technology," US-based Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) has said in a recent study.
In its role as a lender and policy adviser, the WBG has promoted at least 182 incineration projects in 68 countries, including six in India, for industrial wastes, healthcare wastes and municipal wastes, it said.
"Incinerators waste resources, create hazardous releases, and several of the waste streams in the WBG projects since 2001 are particularly hazardous, such as pesticide residues and organchlorine compounds," the study said adding incineration of these wastes will result in even higher quantities of extremely dangerous pollutants.
In developing and under-developed countries, economic and environmental problems of incinerators is further magnified due to inadequate legislative and regulatory infrastructures, lack of facilities to adequately monitor and test emissions and residues, less transparency and fewer opportunities for public participation, different waste content (municipal waste in less industrialised nations consist of more organic and inert matter) and greater budget uncertainties which adversely affect maintenance of facilities, the study said.
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In its role as a lender and policy adviser, the WBG has promoted at least 182 incineration projects in 68 countries, including six in India, for industrial wastes, healthcare wastes and municipal wastes, it said.
"Incinerators waste resources, create hazardous releases, and several of the waste streams in the WBG projects since 2001 are particularly hazardous, such as pesticide residues and organchlorine compounds," the study said adding incineration of these wastes will result in even higher quantities of extremely dangerous pollutants.
In developing and under-developed countries, economic and environmental problems of incinerators is further magnified due to inadequate legislative and regulatory infrastructures, lack of facilities to adequately monitor and test emissions and residues, less transparency and fewer opportunities for public participation, different waste content (municipal waste in less industrialised nations consist of more organic and inert matter) and greater budget uncertainties which adversely affect maintenance of facilities, the study said.
Bureau Report