Wilma Rodrigues is the Founder and CEO of Saahas Zero Waste. In this episode, 'Understanding the Future of Waste Management in Cities’, with Wilma Rodrigues, we explore the concept of waste management in terms of resource recovery in Indian cities.

In this episode, we start the conversation by understanding the idea of waste management and its scenario in the urban sector in India. This is followed by a discussion on the functionality of resource recovery and the way it can lead to a zero waste ecosystem. We understand the requirements in the conversion of organic waste into CNG and Biogas, the composition of waste generated in this ecosystem, multi-layered plastic segregation, and the function of Extended Producer responsibility (EPR) in plastic waste tracing. We further discuss the business models in this ecosystem like circular economy and major challenges faced while scaling up these models across the country. She talks about addressing the social change in terms of consumption patterns in different income groups as well as gives us an insight on various investment possibilities. Further, we discuss the different kinds of recycling and recovery units required in cities to process inorganic waste. At last, she helps us understand the future scope of work and the different skillsets required to technologically manage waste in Indian Cities.

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