SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

   Municipal Solid Waste

   Bio Medical Waste

   Hazardous Waste

The term solid waste means: material such as household garbage (includes recycling), food wastes, yard wastes, and demolition or construction debris.
It also includes discarded items like household appliances, furniture, scrap metal, machinery, car parts and abandoned or junk vehicles.

In Simple Words - Solid wastes are any discarded or abandoned materials. Solid wastes can be solid, liquid, and semi-solid or containerized gaseous material.

Solid-waste management, the collecting, treating, and disposing of solid material that is discarded because it has served its purpose or is no longer useful.
Improper disposal of municipal solid waste can create unsanitary conditions, and these conditions in turn can lead to pollution of the environment and to outbreaks of vector-borne disease—that is, diseases spread by rodents and insects.
The tasks of solid-waste management present complex technical challenges.
They also pose a wide variety of administrative, economic, and social problems that must be managed and solved.

Solid wastes are generally categorized as:

=> Municipal Solid Waste
=> Biomedical Solid Waste
=> Hazardous Waste

In Uttarakhand, growth of population, industrialization and urbanization has resulted in generation of large volumes of solid waste. The total waste generation in the state is continuously increasing with growth in population, urbanization, high per capita income, increase in construction and commercial activities, increase in slaughter houses and shift towards western lifestyles. However, urbanization is the key driving factor amongst all.



References :

=> https://www.co.mason.wa.us/health/environmental/solid_waste/what_is_solid_waste.php
=> Department of Environmental Conservation
=> Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Address-
ENVIS Cell, Uttarakhand Environment Protection & Pollution Control Board,
29/20, Nemi Road, Dalanwala, Dehradun-248001 (Uttarakhand).