Sustainable Approach towards Solid Waste Management: A Case of TIER II Indian City- Gwalior

In the growing state of urbanization, Indian cities are victims of ineffective implementation of policies which in turn results in haphazard growth leading to mismanagement. Waste management is one such problem which evolves out of inefficient mechanism. Currently, policy makers at national as well as international levels acknowledge the issue through programs like Swacch Bharat Mission, Swacchta Sarvekshan, etc and the newly evolving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) at global level. This paper aims to elaborate the scenario of Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) in a tier II Indian city, Gwalior. The present system, implementation and process of MSWM have been thoroughly discussed with an approach for its future sustainability.