Review for MSWM in Indian Cities and Town
Review for MSWM in Indian Cities and Town.
Abstract- Solid waste is defined as thing that cannot be further use for the purpose and discarded things from community. Generally MSWM include collection, transportation and disposal of solid waste. Urbanization and industrialization has created a great challenge for managing the solid waste because of change in quality and increasing in quantity of waste generation. This challenge makes it more complex to manage municipal solid waste around the world. The developing country like India, MSWM is major issues. In last many years waste generation rate of India is increased. This generally happens due to rapid growth and change in life style. The major issues related to MSWM in India is that there is not 100% segregation at household level and 90% of solid waste is directly disposed to land. Some suggested remedies for MSWM are increasing the source separation, implementing some tax on MSW collection so that funds for recourses can be adjust and protection of groundwater from leachate.
Keywords- Urbanization, Municipal solid waste, Landfilling, Population, Generation rate, Recycling, Incineration, Composting plant.
INTRODUCTION he term solid waste is defined as useless and discarded things from community. In recent time solid waste management is becoming major environment concern all around the globe. MSWM includes collection, transportation and disposal of solid waste. Due rapid population growth and industrialization there is a quantum change in waste generation rate has generated challenges for MWSM. Collection and transportation of MSW varies for different country as per their policy and facilities available. Studies indicates that there are sever pollution of air and ground water due to improper method disposal of MSW. In many Asian and African countries and many places around world open dumping is general practice for disposal of MSW.In developed nation MSWM data for generation and management are updated and available in literature. The data is collected on daily basis and also use for planning and executing of strategies while in developing nation MSWM data are insufficient and has short history. II. SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES Solid waste management is also area of concerns for many developed countries as quality and quantity of waste varies as per urbanization and population increase. In year 2007 United States generate about 254 million tons of municipal solid waste [1]