WASTE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT

• Main Author: Patro, Lingaraj (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Delhi Manglam Publishers & Distributors 2012
• Subjects: Refuse and refuse disposal > Environmental aspects; Refuse and refuse disposal > Environmental aspects > India
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 Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal, and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics. Waste management is also carried out to recover resources from it. Waste management can involve solid, liquid, gaseous or radioactive substances, with different methods and fields of expertise for each. Waste management practices differ for developed and developing nations, for urban and rural areas, and for residential and industrial producers. Management for non-hazardous waste, residential and institutional waste in metropolitan areas is usually the responsibility of local government authorities, while management for non hazardous commercial and industrial waste is usually the responsibility of the generator. Integrated waste management using LCA (life cycle analysis) attempts to offer the most benign options for waste management. For mixed MSW (Municipal Solid Waste) a number of broad studies have indicated that waste administration, then source separation and collection followed by reuse and recycling of the non organic fraction and energy and compost/fertilizer production of the organic waste fraction via anaerobic digestion is the favoured path. Non-metallic waste resources are not destroyed as with incineration, and can be reused/ recycled in a future resource depleted society. The popular meaning of 'recycling' in most developed countries refers to the widespread collection and reuse of everyday waste materials such as empty beverage containers. These are collected and sorted into common types so that the raw materials from which the items are made can be reprocessed into new products. Material for recycling may be collected separately from general waste using dedicated bins and collection vehicles, or sorted directly from mixed waste streams.