Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said, sustainable waste management is the need of the hour, which involves managing waste in an environmentally sound and techno-economically viable manner. <br/><br/>Mr Puri said this while inaugurating a national workshop on processing and use of construction and demolition waste in New Delhi today. <br/><br/>He said, the waste management hierarchy demands avoiding generation of waste, followed by reducing, reusing, recycling, recovering, treating and disposing whatever wastes produced. <br/><br/>The Minister said, the fundamental objective should be to maximize re-use and recycling so that minimum land space is occupied for disposal and at the same time, natural resources and energy are saved. <br/><br/>Mr Puri stated that there is pressing need to bring awareness about the problem of waste management and the necessity to adopt the proper procedure of collection, processing, recycling.