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 International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887)
Volume 100– No.10, August 2014

Assessment of Municipal Solid Waste Management of

Pune City using Geospatial Tools

Nitin Mundhe Ravindra Jaybhaye Bhalachandra Dorik

Department of Geography, Department of Geography, Department of Geography,
S.P.College, Pune University of Pune, University of Pune,
Pune, India Pune, India Pune, India

ABSTRACT the disease like nausea, jaundice, asthma etc (Bean, et al.
Solid waste management is among the basic essential services 1995).
provided by municipal authorities in the country to keep cities In Pune city primary sources of solid waste are local
clean. Due to industrialization, rural to urban migration and households, commercial establishments, hospitals, hotels,
high growth rate of population have induced rapid restaurants, and markets. The total quantity of waste generated
urbanisation in developing countries and obviously in India per day is about 1300 to 1400 metric tons (approximate
also. The haphazard urbanisation created acute problem of generation per capita per day is 500 grams). Pune Municipal
solid waste management. The per capita waste generation rate Corporation (PMC) is responsible for collection, storage,
in India has increased from 0.44 kg per day in 2001 to 0.5 kg segregation, transportation and disposal of all solid waste
per day in 2011; such a steep increase in waste generation generated in the city. In the present research work describes
within a decade has severed the stress on all infrastructural, an attempt to assess the collection, segregation, transportation,
natural and budgetary resources. Pune is one of the fastest treatment and disposal of PMC land fill site using geospatial
developing city, it generates total quantity of waste is about tools like Remote Sensing (RS), Geographical Information
1300 to 1400 metric tons per day. So, there is need of the System (GIS) and Global Position System (GPS).
proper waste collection, transportation route for prevention of
environment form the hazardous waste disposal. The proposed
work emphasizes on the assessment of detail process of solid
2. SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
waste management such as collection, storage, segregation, Pune city generates large amount of solid waste. This large
transportation, treatment and disposal by using Geospatial amount of waste poorly disposed and untreated. The city does
tools like RS, GIS and GPS. It may help in sustainable urban not have an engineered or scientific landfill site and the
environment of Pune city. capacity of existing dump site cannot cater the future demand
of the waste generated. So, there is an immediate need for
Keywords: designed scientific integrated solid waste management system
GIS, GPS, Remote Sensing, Municipal Solid Waste using Geospatial tools like Remote Sensing, GIS and GPS to
Management, Sustainable Urban Environment minimize adverse effects on environment, social and
economic of solid waste management. Therefore the present
1. INTRODUCTION research work focuses on understating effective waste
Solid waste comprises unwanted and discarded materials from management practices in study area.
houses, street sweeping, and commercial and industrial 3. OBJECTIVES
operations. Increase in urban population and changing life
The main objective of this present research work is to assess
styles lead to the generation of solid waste. Generally, solid
the Municipal Solid Waste Management system like
waste is heterogeneous in nature such as mixture of
collection, storage, segregation, transportation, processing and
vegetables, food items, paper, plastics, rags, glass etc. If solid
disposal of Pune city using Geospatial tools. It may aid in
waste is disposed off on land in open areas, then it causes a
quick and useful decisions for the purpose of administration
negative impact on the environment, ground water and on
and planning for a sustainable urban environment.
health.
The most common problems associated with improper 4. STUDY AREA
management of solid waste include diseases, odor nuisance, Pune is the second largest fast developing urban
fire hazards, atmospheric and water pollution, aesthetic agglomerations in Maharashtra and ranks eight at national
nuisance and economic losses (Jilani, 2002). There has been a level. It is now rapidly changing its character from an
significant increase in solid waste generation in India over the education-administrative center to an important industrial hub
years from 100 gm per person per day in small towns to 500 and the IT center. Pune is a plateau city situated near the
grams per persons per day in large towns. Currently most of western margin of the Deccan Plateau. It is situated at an
the municipal waste in India is being disposed unscientifically altitude of 560 m above the mean sea level. PMC lies between
(Akolkar, 2005). Generally municipal solid waste is collected latitudes 18° 25'N and 18° 37'N and longitudes between73°
and deposited in landfill such unscientific disposal attract 44'E and 73° 57'E and the geographical area is around 243.84
birds, rodents and fleas to the waste site and create unhygienic Sq.Km with a population of 3.1 million composed of 76
conditions (Suchitra, et al. 2007). The degradation of the solid general electoral wards(according to 2011, Census of India).
waste results in the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2), These wards were converted in 14 administrative wards by
methane (CH4) and other trace gases. The unscientific landfill Pune Municipal Corporation (Figure 1). The density of the
site may reduce the quality of the drinking water and causes

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city was 12,777 persons/ Sq.Km. The area in the central part 7. MSW GENERATION
of the PMC is densely populated than the marginal regions. Generation of MSW has an obvious relation to the population
of the city, caused by bigger cities generate more waste.
5. DATABASE & METHODOLOGY Kolkata metropolitan area generates the largest amount of
The data collection involved collection of topographical maps, MSW (11,520 TPD or 4.2 million TPY) among Indian cities.
ward maps, satellite data and demographic details. The
environment of these data and their source are shown in Table Municipal Waste is generated as Dry Waste and Wet Waste. It
1. The Survey of India topographical maps scale 1:25,000 was is observed that the previous literature tropical countries show
used for the current study of the following features: drainage, the higher percentage of wet waste than dry. Pune city
water bodies, contours, roads and rail network and generates dry and wet waste approximately in equal
administrative boundaries. Other data sources are satellite proportion (i.e. 50%-50%). The garbage generated is
images of Pune city, various maps collected from published dependent on the activity prevalent in the area where as wet
materials and from related web sites. waste generation is more in residential and commercial area
such as hotels or food industry.
Table 1: Primary and secondary data details
About 40 per cent of the waste is generated from households
Segment : Pune City Sources (domestic waste), followed by hotels, restaurants and other
Toposheets No. 47F/14/1 to Survey of India, commercial establishments which together account for over
47F/14/6, F/15/NE, scale 1:25000 50 per cent of the waste generated (Figure 3).
F/15/NW and 47F/15/SE
Table 2: Source of MSW Generated in PMC
Google Image Internet
Geological Map Geological Survey of India, Sr. Source Quantity of Composition
Pune No Waste Generated in %
Satellite Imagery – Landsat 5 Global Land Cover Facility . per day- tons
TM (February, 2011) (GLCF) earthexplorer.usgs.gov 1 Domestic 400 40
web site (Households)
Demographic details from Directorate of census 2 Commercials 250 25
Primary Census abstracts for, operations, Census of India 3 Market Areas 50 5
2001 and 2011 4 Hotels and 250 25
All Secondary data related Pune Municipal Corporation Restaurants
Solid Waste Management, (PMC) 5 Vegetable waste 50 5
Land use/ Land cover etc. (19 Markets)
Ward maps and Pune Municipal Corporation Total 1000 100
Administrative Boundary (PMC) Source: Revised City Development Plan for Pune - 2041,
Maharashtra, Under JNNURM
The total waste generated is in the range of 1300 to 1400
The brief information about steps involved in implementation
metric tonnes (MT) per day (per capita of 500 grams per day).
methodology for the present research work.
The waste generated was collected, transported and disposed
a. Procurement of Satellite data and related attribute data
b. Geo-correction of remote sensing data and topographical at land fill site which is about 20 km away from Pune at Uruli
Devachi from the 1st of June 2010. PMC has stopped open
maps.
dumping and total waste generated is processed scientifically.
c. Application of standard image processing techniques to
identify the existing solid waste system of study area.
d. Creation of GIS layers: digitization of contour lines,
drainage, roads, railways, land use/ land cover area,
location of smaller ramps, bio-gas plant and administrative
boundary of study area from the topographical maps and
Google images using GIS software’s.
e. Fieldwork would be carried out to survey by using GPS.
f. Generation of base map and related database from
topographical maps of Survey of India and satellite data.
Since the main objective of this research is to understand and
assess the existing solid waste system of Pune city using
Geospatial tools. The flowchart of methodology is given in
Figure 2.
Figure 3: Sources of MSW Generation in PMC
6. COMPOSITION OF MSW Figure 4 represent the ward-wise solid waste generated in
Materials in MSW can be broadly categorized into three MTD. It can be seen that the major contributing wards for
groups, Compostables, Recyclables and Inerts. Compostables Pune city are Mahatma Phule Smarak (Bhavani Path), Kasba
or organic fractions consist of market wastes and food waste. Peth. This is due to higher population density in the old city
Recyclables are included paper, plastic, glass and metal. The areas and commercial activities.
fraction of MSW which can neither be composted nor
recycled into secondary raw materials is called Inert. Inert 8. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
material includes stones, ash and silt which enter the The main components of waste management are collection,
collection system due to littering on streets and at public segregation, storage, transportation, treatment and disposal.
places. Currently, most of the cities MSWM system includes above
mention all components of waste management.

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8.1 Waste Segregation The waste collection efficiency of Pune municipality is 100
Segregation at source is the most important step in waste per cent, which is collected from door to door for 52 per cent
management and is done in two major categories: wet waste of households and rest of the waste is collected from the
and dry waste. Wet waste is the bio degradable solid waste community bins and containers.
includes residential waste of all kinds and waste from markets 8.2.1 Ghanta Trucks, Containers and Compactor
and slaughterhouse. Dry waste is the recyclable solid waste
that includes paper and plastic of all kinds excluding Buckets
hazardous waste material. 113 Ghanta trucks are deployed for door to door collection of
waste. The Ghanta trucks collect about 95,000 Kg of wet
Waste segregation was made mandatory by Hon. Supreme waste every day. Containers are placed at certain locations in
court and Govt. of India Gazette dated 3rd October 2001 and the city, which is used to dispose garbage by people, who are
Municipal solid waste management and handling rules 2000. not covered under the door to door collection. There are a
PMC has implemented solid waste segregation system for dry total of 936 containers and 412 compactor buckets placed in
and wet waste in the city. 1st July 2005 was the last date for various parts of the city (Table 4).
the residents for the non segregation waste collection. The
corporation has started collection of only segregated waste Table 4: Ward-wise solid waste collection vehicles
from households which have forced the residents to segregate Sr. Name of Ward Ghanta Containers Compactor
the waste. PMC has adopted decentralized pattern of solid No. office truck Buckets
waste segregation and disposal at its source through 1 Aundh 6 66 31
vermicomposting. From the total waste generated about 500 2 Ghole Road 11 120 21
Metric Tons dry waste is separated and removed by various 3 Nagar Road 10 25 0
agencies like rag pickers, crap material vendors and other 4 Dholepatil Road 8 62 18
NGOs. These rag pickers are segregating waste at various 5 Warje Karvenagar 14 115 46
sources like from door step collection, ghantagadi, municipal 6 Kothrud 13 42 12
containers and at the dumping site. There are more than 5000 7 Sangamwadi 12 33 0
registered rag pickers involved in this waste segregation 8 Sahakar Nagar 5 39 18
process. PMC has done ground truthing in 14 administrative 9 Dhankawadi 4 74 20
wards regarding solid waste segregation practice in six 10 Bibwewadi 5 81 135
categorized places namely Wards, Properties, Societies, 11 Tilak Road 9 55 6
Bungalows, Slums & Chawls and Hotels & Restaurants 12 Bhavani Peth 6 59 37
(Table 3). Among these except hotels industry, other 13 Kasba Vishram 6 104 33
categories have poor performance in segregation of waste at 14 Hadapsar 4 61 35
source. Total 113 936 412
Source: Pune City Sanitation Plan, 2011
Table 3: Segregation of MSW at source
8.2.2 Solid Waste collected through rag pickers
Total Waste Segregated 48 % to 50 % SWaCH, a PMC initiative is a registered society of waste
Wards 20 % to 65 % pickers which has a total strength of 5500 members. Out of
these, 1963 members are involved in door to door collection
Properties 42%
of solid waste. The data collected at sub ward level represents
Societies 30% Household level solid waste collection (Figure 6) is more than
Bungalows 47% 99 % in Vanaj Company Kothrud) ward and lowest (0 to
25%) at Ramtekdi, Mohammad Wadi, Hadapsar, Parwati
Slums & Chawls 32% Gaon. The sub wards of Aundh Gaon, Phulnagar(Yerwada),
Hotels & Restaurants 85% Model Colony, Vedbhavan, Rambaug Colony, NIBM, Katraj
Gaon area have medium (50 to 75%) proportion
Source: Pune City Sanitation Plan, 2011
8.2.3 Private door to door collection efforts
Figure 5 shows ward-wise solid waste segregation in Some societies and residential complexes have hired services
percentage, where Vanaj Company and Vedbhavan (Kothrud) of sweepers to collect door to door waste, which is segregated
ward shows maximum segregation of waste are more than 60 either at source or by the sweeper. The waste is then collected
per cent. Rajbhavan, Deccan Collage, Kalas Vishrantwadi, by Ghanta Trucks.
Ramwadi, Mohammad Wadi and Padmavati – Araneshwar
wards, there is less segregation (0 to 20%) of waste. 8.2.4 Solid Waste collected through Hotel trucks:
PMC has deployed 23 separate trucks for collection of hotel
8.2 Waste Collection waste (Table 5), which is segregated at source.
Waste collection is the removal of waste from houses and all
commercial places to collection site from where it will go for Table 5: Waste collected by Hotel Trucks
further treatment or disposal. The Corporation organizes the Sr. Name of Ward Trucks Hotels Weight of
collection and transportation through a team of its own No. office Wet Waste
conservancy workers and a fleet of vehicles and dumper- (In kg)
placers. The waste is also collected with the help of rag 1 Aundh 2 72 9700
pickers by carrying out door-to-door collection in certain 2 Ghole Road 3 215 22200
areas; these rag-pickers are not the employees of PMC, but 3 Nagar Road 2 116 9700
they make their livelihood by salvaging recyclable waste from 4 Dholepatil Road 3 171 18400
collection points and dump yards and they are also paid Rs. 10 5 Warje Karvenagar 1 84 7200
per month by each household. 6 Kothrud 2 110 11200
7 Sangamwadi 1 20 7200

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8 Sahakar Nagar 2 94 5200 This project has constructed a scientific landfill to dispose the
9 Dhankawadi 1 90 4000 inert waste which is approximately 20 per cent of the total
10 Bibwewadi 1 45 3700 waste processing.
11 Tilak Road 1 42 6130
12 Bhavani Peth 2 108 5840 8.4.2 Organic Wastes Composting
13 Kasba Vishram 1 130 6400 Three organic wastes composting plant working in PMC. The
14 Hadapsar 1 52 7500 capacity each plant is 100 TPD, out of which two processing
Total 23 1349 1,24,370 plants have been specially made and the work of 3rd plant is in
Source: Pune City Sanitation Plan, 2011 progress (Figure 8).
8.3 Transportation of Solid Waste 8.4.3 Bio Gas & Mechanical Compost Plants
The transportation of waste is done through Ghanta Trucks, Total 70 TPD of organic waste is being treated in 12 Biogas
Compactors, Hotel Trucks and Tractor, Dumper placer and plants of 5 Tonnes capacity each, one biogas plant of 3
Bulk Refuse Carrier (B.R.C). Dumper placers, hotel trucks Tonnes capacity. Two Mechanical compost plants of 5 TPD in
and Ghanta trucks are deployed in all the 14 wards in addition Ramtekadi and 2 TPD in Aundh is also functional (Figure 9).
to BRC and compactors in some of the wards. There are 7
different ramps of the transfer stations like Aundh, Kothrud, Table 7: Solid Waste Management Project on PMC
Katraj, Ghole Road, Koregaon Park and Yerwada and Sr. Name of the Project Method Capacity
Hadapsar (Figure 7). The solid waste from each collection No. & place (TPD)
point is brought to these ramps of transfer stations by dumper 1 Hanjer Biotech Composting, 1000
placer or other transportation equipments. Before sending the projects - Urali RDF, Pallets and
waste to the disposal site at Urali Devachi, the entire waste is Devachi Bio-fuel
send to transfer stations for weighing and the same
2 Disha Waste Vermi- 100
computerized record is maintained by authority.
Management- composting
Table 6: Use of Vehicles for Waste Transportation Ramtekdi Industrial
Estate
Sr. Type of Vehicle Nos. 3 Ajinkya Biofert - Vermi- 200
No. Hadapsar composting
1 Ghanta Truck 113 4 Bio-Gas and Electricity and 70
2 Compactor 17 Mechanical Compost Compost
3 Mini Compactor 10 (15 Decentralized
4 Hotel Truck 23 Plant)
5 Dumper Placer 83 Source: Revised City Development Plan for Pune - 2041,
6 Bulk Refuse Carrier(B.R.C.) 60 Maharashtra, Under JNNURM
7 Tractor 5 8.5 Ongoing Projects
8 JCB 22 Taking into consideration emergency breakdown, weekly offs
9 Loaders 2 and working efficiency of above plants and to cater to future
10 Bulldozers 2 requirement, there is a need for an additional plant to process
Source: Pune City Sanitation Plan, 2011 waste. Hence construction of 700 TPD capacity waste to
energy plant is in progress, the plant will work based on the
8.4 Processing and Scientific Disposal of technology of gasification/pyrolysis. It is expected that the
Waste plant will generate a total of 10 MW per hour of electricity.
The existing disposal site is located at Urali Devachi (165
acres), which is about 20 km away. Earlier, PMC was 8.6 Best Practice Models for SWM in Pune
converting biodegradable organic waste into compost by the City
aerobic process at the landfill sites. But from 2002 onwards, PMC has undertaken some innovative projects on pilot basis
PMC has shifted to Effective Micro Organism (EM), a to manage solid waste generated in the city. Two such
Japanese technology. The EM technology eliminates harmful successful projects are:
gases like ammonia and Hydrogen Sulphide, thus reducing the
polluted smell; the microbes digest the organic matter and this 1. ‘Garbage Free Katraj’ Model
produces high quality compost. 2. ‘Electricity Generation’ through wet waste generated in
Presently, about 1000 tonnes of waste is composted using the hotels in Kothrud area.
EM technology; the compost is then supplied to farmers free Successful implementation of these projects at ward level has
of cost. Pune is the first city in India to implement this proved it to be a replicable model, which can be initiated
technology. PMC has adopted a decentralized system for phase wise in other wards of the city. These models are cost
waste disposal, at the local or ward level. Wet waste is effective and demonstrate that people’s participation in such
disposed by vermiculture, biogas plant and waste to energy programs help in implementing it successfully.
program. PMC is promoting this technology through public
participation and by creating public awareness. 8.7 Future Generation of MSW
About 1370 MT/day of solid waste generated is scientifically Presently PMC generated 1300 to 1400 tons of waste per day.
treated in various ways (Table 7) like landfilling, organic Per capita per day waste generation is 500 gram. Future solid
compost, bio-gas and mechanical compost: waste generation for Pune city is projected on the basis of
existing per capita generation. Year wise generation of
8.4.1 Hanjer Biotech Projects I & II Municipal solid waste in Pune Municipal Corporation will be
M/s Hanjer Biotech at Urali Devachi plant is capable to as follows:
handle the mixed garbage with a full capacity of 1000 TPD.

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Figure 1: Location map of study area

Need for study and Relevance Papers

Publications
Literature
Identification of Problem

Data collection

Satellite Data Toposheet Data GSI Data Demographic Data

Image Rectification Geo-reference

Image Enhancement Digitization Data Attachment

Image Classification
Point Layer Line Layer Polygon Layer
Supervised Classification
using Hybrid Image Smaller Ramps Administrative &
Contour
Classification Method Filling Site Ward Boundary
Road
Landfill Site Railway Land use
Drainage River
LU/ LC Map

Overlay All Layers

Assessment of the Municipal Solid

Waste Management (MSWM) of
PMC like collection, storage,
segregation and disposal landfill site

Figure 2: Flowchart of Methodology

Figure 2: Flowchart of Methodology

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Figure 4: Ward-wise Solid Waste Generated in MTD

Figure 5: Ward-wise Segregation of Waste

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Figure 6: Ward-wise Collection of Waste

Figure 7: Solid Waste Transportation System of PMC

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Figure 8: Compost Plant of PMC

Figure 9: Bio Gas Project of PMC

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