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LECTURE 3

Solid Waste Management

• Solid waste management includes the activities and actions


required to manage waste from its inception to its final
disposal.
• This includes the collection, transport, treatment and
disposal of waste, together with monitoring and regulation
of the waste management process and waste-related laws,
technologies, economic mechanisms.
• Solid waste management practices can differ for residential
and industrial producers, for urban and rural areas and for
developed and developing nations.
6 Functional Elements of the Waste Management System

• Waste generation: This encompasses any activities • Waste transfer and transport: These are the activities
involved in identifying materials that are no longer usable involved in moving waste from the local waste collection
and are either gathered for systematic disposal or thrown locations to the regional waste disposal site in large waste
away. transport vehicles.
• Onsite handling, storage, and processing: This relates • Waste processing and recovery: This refers to the
to activities at the point of waste generation, which facilities, equipment, and techniques employed to recover
facilitate easier collection. For example, waste bins are reusable or recyclable materials from the waste stream
placed at sites that generate sufficient waste. and to improve the effectiveness of other functional
• Waste collection: A crucial phase of waste management, elements of waste management.
this includes activities such as placing waste collection • Disposal: The final stage of waste management. It
bins, collecting waste from those bins, and accumulating involves the activities aimed at the systematic disposal of
trash in the location where the collection vehicles are waste materials in locations such as landfills or waste-to-
emptied. Although the collection phase involves energy facilities.
transportation, this is typically not the main stage of
waste transportation.
Sources of Waste
Municipal Solid Waste:
Municipal solid waste (MSW) is generated from
households, offices, hotels, shops, schools and other
institutions. The major components are food waste,
paper, plastic, rags, metal and glass, although demolition
and construction debris is often included in collected
waste, as are small quantities of hazardous waste, such
as electric light bulbs, batteries, automotive parts and
discarded medicines and chemicals.

Industrial Solid Waste:


Industrial solid waste in the Asian and Pacific Region,
as elsewhere, encompasses a wide range of materials of
varying environmental toxicity. Typically this range
would include paper, packaging materials, waste from
food processing, oils, solvents, resins, paints and
sludges, glass, ceramics, stones, metals, plastics, rubber,
leather, wood, cloth, straw, abrasives, etc.
Categories of Waste

Organic waste: Kitchen waste, waste from


food preparation, vegetables, flowers, leaves,
fruits, and market places.

Combustibles: Paper, wood, dried leaves,


packaging for relief items etc. that are highly
organic and having low moisture content.
Construction waste: Rubble, roofing, broken concrete etc.
Non-combustibles: Metal, Tins, Cans, bottles,
stones, etc.
Hazardous waste: Oil, battery acid, medical waste, industrial
waste, hospital waste.
Toxic waste: Old medicines, paints, chemicals,
bulbs, spray cans, fertilizer and pesticide
Dead animals: Carcasses of dead livestock or other animals.
containers, batteries, shoe polish.
Bulky waste: Tree branches, tires etc.
Recyclables: Paper, glass, metals, plastics.
Soiled waste: Hospital waste such as cloth soiled with blood
Ashes or Dust: Residue from fires that are used
and other body fluids.
for cooking.
Transportation of solid waste

Primary collection:
• Door-to-door collection by primary collection vehicle (for eg. cycle cart)

Secondary collection:
• After the primary collection done by primary collection vehicle and loaded onto secondary collection vehicle
(for eg, dumper) at the transfer station and carried to dumpyard.
Click below,
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Treatment and disposal of municipal waste


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Recycle and reuse of solid waste


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