Sandra Mary Antony

UM4000-1

Morbi- Solid Waste Management

As part of our Urban Governance and Management studio, this project on Solid Waste Management in Morbi aims to identify operational inefficiencies and propose a comprehensive, phased strategy to strengthen the city's waste collection and processing systems. Focusing on challenges such as inadequate primary collection in narrow lanes, fragmented coordination, and lack of integration with informal waste pickers, the project follows a three-stage approach: improving primary collection through customized vehicles and inclusion of pushcart waste collectors, establishing feeder points and efficient transfer systems to RTS facilities, and streamlining secondary transportation and processing. Emphasizing financial viability, institutional reform, and technological integration, the project envisions a scalable, environmentally sustainable, and citizen-responsive waste management framework for Morbi.


Report Content

Overview of Morbi Municipal Corporation's current Solid Waste Management system, highlighting key gaps such as zero waste processing, lack of community bins, and limited collection coverage despite generating 248 TPD of waste.

Illustrates the existing solid waste management flow in Morbi, from door-to-door collection and sweeping to transportation, absence of processing, and final disposal at the landfill.

The organizational structure and employment model of Morbi’s sanitation system, highlighting roles, hierarchies, and the dominance of contract and daily wage workers.

The poor condition of solid waste management in Morbi through visual evidence and benchmark indicators, revealing major inefficiencies in segregation, recovery, disposal, and complaint redressal.

Survey insights revealing public dissatisfaction with waste management, highlighting issues like lack of segregation awareness, open dumping, insufficient manpower, and inefficiencies in door-to-door collection.

103 Garbage Vulnerable Points (GVPs) in the city and reveals that inefficient routing and a lack of small vehicles severely affect waste collection in narrow, congested areas.

A three-part waste management proposal—Collection, Processing, and Segregation—supported by a vision to transform Morbi into a zero-waste, circular city through smart, inclusive, and tech-enabled systems.

Indore's successful waste management model highlighting solutions, stakeholders, outcomes, and challenges, alongside key gaps addressed to become India’s cleanest city since 2017.

Indore's waste management system, highlighting key aspects like people, process, policy, technology, finance, infrastructure, contracts, and scaling-up strategies.

A five-stage waste management proposal transitioning from short-term collection improvements to long-term systemic solutions, emphasizing citizen engagement and source-level segregation.