Now a day, we are facing a problem regarding the management of waste generated daily. This waste includes solid waste from industrial zone, commercial zone and residential zone. Among all these waste management from residential zone requires first priority because if this waste is not properly disposed off daily, then it will create problems to public health, affects the aesthetics. This paper ...

One of the most important causes of environmental pollution is certainly an inadequate waste management. The three factors that have primarily influenced this problem area are: ever increasing amount of municipal solid waste (which causes increasingly pronounced space occupation), increasing amount and types of hazardous waste, as well as lack of awareness on the importance of acting promptly i...

forecasting of municipal waste generation is a critical challenge for decision making and planning,because proper planning and operation of a solid waste management system is intensively affected by municipal solid waste (msw) streams analysis and accurate predictions of solid waste quantities generated. due to dynamic and complexity of solid waste management system, models by artificial intell...

This article highlights the problems of solid waste management in the city of Guwahati. The institutional responsibility of solid waste disposal system is assigned to the Guwahati Municipal Corporation. But the service provided by the corporation is neither efficient nor sufficient. This has created enormous problem in the city. Therefore, an attempt has been made in this article to examine peo...

BACKGROUND Waste produced in dental clinics has been the topic of investigations for many years. These waste materials have important health impacts and are hazardous to humans and the environment. OBJECTIVE To investigating solid waste production and its management in dental clinics in Gorgan, northern Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 45 of 143 public dental practices and 5 of ...

In recent years managing solid wastes has been one of the burning problems in front of state and local municipal authorities. This is mainly due to scarcity of lands for landfill sites. In this context experts suggest that conversion of solid waste to energy and useful component is the best approach to reduce space and public health related problems. The entire process has to be managed by tech...

India faces major environmental challenges associated with waste generation and inadequate waste collection, transport, treatment and disposal. Current systems in India cannot cope with the volumes of waste generated by an increasing urban population, and this impacts on the environment and public health. The challenges and barriers are significant, but so are the opportunities. This paper repo...

Community participation has a direct bearing on effective solid waste management. Investigation on community attitude, perception and willingness towards solid waste management was carried out in Bangalore city. Households data was collected randomly based on their socioeconomic status using focus group discussion and structured interviews. On an average 63% of the households are willing to par...

The importance of cost planning for solid waste management (SWM) in industrialising regions (IR) is not well recognised. The approaches used to estimate costs of SWM can broadly be classified into three categories - the unit cost method, benchmarking techniques and developing cost models using sub-approaches such as cost and production function analysis. These methods have been developed into c...