CSE & NITI Aayog Releases ‘Waste-wise Cities- Best Practices in Municipal Solid Waste Management’ report

Why in news?

• NITI (National Institute for Transforming India) Aayog and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released a report titled ‘Waste-wise Cities: Best practices in municipal solid waste management’, a comprehensive knowledge on India’s solid waste management.

About report

• The Report documents best practices of solid waste management from 28 cities in 15 states of India.
• The report contains, source segregation, material recovery and technological innovations to the management of different kinds of wastes and systems such as biodegradables, plastics, Electronic-waste (e-waste), Construction & Demolition (C&D) waste and landfills