The Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in association with the Odisha State Pollution Control Board organised the “2nd National e-Conference on “Industrial solid waste management: the new possibilities and way forward and bio medical waste management strategies” here on Tuesday. Industries, Energy and MSME Minister Dibya Shankar Mishra, OSPCB Member Secretary Dr K Murugeshan spoke.
The Minister urged all the industries to pay more attention in treating the waste. “It must be a responsibility of all the industries to take care of the mother earth by proper treatment of solid waste generated,” he said.He stressed upon adopting new technologies in bio-medical waste management. Dr Murugeshan urged for encouraging entrepreneurship in the ISW and BMW management space. He said the State is lacking in bio-medical waste management facility as it has only three such facilities against the requirement of eight. For proper management of waste, capacity building and infrastructure development is the need of the hour, said he.
Green Vortex founder and director Shankar Sharma made a presentation on circular economy & waste management while Kirtimayee Swain, Global Project Head, Polycrack Technologies, made a presentation on waste management and sustainable development trough waste to energy conversion.
Tata Steel’s Saroj K Banerjee, Apollo Hospital’s Dr Partha Sarathi Goswami and AMRI Hospital’s Nilanajana Mukherjee spoke on biomedical waste at their respective hospitals. OSPCB Chief Environmental Engineer Dr NR Sahoo briefed about the various acts of the Industrial Solid Waste Management & the recent amendments.