New Delhi: More than 630 complaints about burning open biomass are intended by the institutions concerned in the last 12 days.
Data compiled by the Department of Environment shows that during the same period, more than 1,000 Chaltan was issued to violators for burning open biomass, garbage and parks or plastic waste.
Around 34,486 metric tons of biomass / garbage and 10,026 tons of plastic waste collected between October 29 and November 8 as the Delhi government began a campaign against burning open biomass on Thursday, experts said the incident increased during the winter and it was one of the main sources pollution in the city.
A study conducted by the Energy Council, Environment and Water (CEE), which showed PM2.5 contributions from various sectors to Delhi air in the winter of 2020, stating that emissions from waste burning contributed 8.7% on October 15 and 15 November 2020 .
The burning section of waste rose to 10% from November 15 to December 15, 2020 and 9.2% between December 15 and January 15, and 15 January 2021.
Tanushree Ganguly, the Lead program, CEE, “Our analysis shows that Burning Biomass for heating is an important part of the load Delhi pollution between mid-November to mid-January.
“” The planned activity of multilevel response has required RWA and owners of individual homes to provide electric heaters to security staff.
Efforts must be made to understand why night shelter can serve homelessness in low occupancy during winter, “Ganguly added.
Anju Goel, Fellow, Earth Science and Climate Change, Institute of Energy and Resources, “Biomass is used for cooking or for heating.
A Teri study conducted in 2016 said 1.2 lakh households in Delhi-NCR used biomass for cooking.
The authorities must ensure adequate supply of cleaning fuel to reduce the use of biomass for cooking.
“According to decision support systems developed by the Indian Tropical Meteorology Institute, Pune to estimate local and regional pollution sources, the contribution of waste that lights up to PM2.5 Delhi is around 2-3% for the next four days.
Anumite Roychowdhury, Executive Director of Research and Advocacy, Science and Environmental Center, said, “The authorities must strengthen city services by focusing on 100% collection, separation and recycling waste.”