Solid Waste Management(Municipal Solid Waste)
Introduction
Solid waste is the unwanted or useless solid materials generated from combined residential, industrial and commercial activities in a given area.
Management of solid waste reduces or eliminates adverse impacts on the environment and human health and supports economic development and improved quality of life. A number of processes are involved in effectively managing waste for a municipality. These include monitoring, collection, transport, processing, recycling and disposal.
Municipal solid waste
- Consists of household waste, construction and demolition debris, sanitation residue, and waste from streets.
- This garbage is generated mainly from residential and commercial complexes.
- The amount of municipal solid waste has been increasing rapidly.
- The composition of MSW is also changing. Earlier it was mainly food and other biodegradable refuse but nowadays plastics and aluminium cans form a large chunk of the daily MSW generation.
Classification of MSW
