solid waste management

What is the Solid Waste Management?

• The primary goal of solid waste management is reducing and eliminating adverse impacts of waste materials on the human health and environment development and superior quality of life.

• solid waste management is to minimize these adverse effects before it becomes too difficult to rectify in the future.
  
  
  
  

• Solid waste management is a task involving many activities like:

1. ​Collection of solid wastes.

2. Disposal of solid wastes.

3. Waste utilization.

​Solid waste management

Collection of Solid Wastes

• It is the transfer of solid waste from the point of use and disposal to the point of treatment or landfill.

• Collection includes all the activities associated with the gathering of solid wastes and the hauling of the wastes collected to transport it to the site of disposal.

Collection of Solid Wastes

There are following methods of collection :

1.Curbside Collection/ House to House

Waste collector visit each individual house to collect garbage. Users leave their garbage directly outside their home at pick up schedule set by authorities.

Collection of Solid Wastes

2. Community bins/ Community Storage point

Users brings their garbage to community bins that are placed at fixed in a locality. Collection agency collect it daily for disposal.

Collection of Solid Wastes

2. Self Delivered

Generators deliver their waste directly to the disposal sites or transfer stations .

Municipal Waste

With rising urbanization and change of lifestyle and food habits the amount of Municipal solid waste mangement.

It includes :

1. Household waste.

2. Construction and demolition debris.

3. Sanitation residue.

4. Street waste.

Municipal Waste

4. Waste from waste H₂O plant.

5. Plastics , Cans , Aluminium foils.

6. Paper , Rubber.

7. Food waste.
   

Hazardous Waste

• Highly Toxic , Corrosive , Inflammable or explosives.

• Around 7 million every year.
  

It includes :
1. Mercury Thermometer.
2. Batteries.
3. Paints , Tins , Dyes.
4. Chemical , Pesticide.