The Indore municipal corporation (IMC) has taken the initiative to make 5 zero waste wards as control wards to see the scheme’s efficacy, which will then be scaled up to 85 wards. The work was assigned to the feedback foundation to hold seminars and meetings where they could inform and educate the citizens about waste segregation, minimisation and how they can keep their surroundings clean.
They were urged to divide their waste into four bins blue bin for recyclables/dry waste, green for bio-degradable/wet waste, red for domestic biomedical and black for domestic hazardous waste. It is not easy to trigger behaviour change which prompted the team to start door-to-door visits, ensuring that the citizens are partaking in responsible waste segregation.
They were also taught home composting and motivated to start doing it themselves. The best part of the scheme was that the citizens were motivated to make their ward a zero-waste ward to set an example for the wards in Indore.