Waste Baseline Study
The ground-truth study of how much waste a city generates, and where it goes today.
A waste baseline establishes the numbers every SWM decision depends on — total generation, per-capita rates, current segregation, collection coverage and where waste actually ends up. Without it, plans and budgets rest on guesswork.
- Every SWM plan, DPR and target needs a defensible starting point
- Swachh Survekshan and GFC scoring both begin from measured data
- It sizes vehicles, bins, processing capacity and staffing correctly
From guesswork to a defensible baseline
A baseline turns scattered records and field samples into the single dataset every SWM plan, DPR and target is measured against.
A clear, practical approach
Population, wards, existing records and prior studies.
Generation sampling, weighbridge and route data across representative wards.
Generation rates, gaps and a benchmark to measure progress against.
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