Answers To The Question: What Is Solid Waste Management
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT – In this article, we will learn and discover what is solid waste management and its importance.
Environmental protection and conservation should become a priority. Every day billions of garbage is being dumped, that’s where solid waste management comes in.
It is a term used to that refers to the process of collecting and treating solid waste. Along with this, it offers solutions to for recycling of items that do not belong to garbage or trash.
Solid Waste has been an issue for the longest time. With this, waste management aims to change garbage into a valuable resource.
There are various sources of this type of waste. Each day billions of tons of solid waste are dumped in various landfills across the world.
These wastes come from households, industries, offices, and individuals. The landfill they end up in poses a problem because if not treated properly, these waste could cause a slew of potential threats to human health.
The major sources for this type of waste come from the following:
- Residential
- Industrial
- Commercial
- Institutional
- Construction and Demolition
- Municipal
- Treatment Plants and Sites
- Agriculture
- Biomedical
According to an article from Conserve-Energy-Future, here are the effects of poor solid waste management.
Aside from littering the environment with plastic that won’t breakdown for hundreds of years, it could become a breeding ground for various diseases. This can be caused by improper and unhygienic disposal of garbage.
Waste from industries is also a source of toxic metals and hazardous wastes and chemicals. These can cause biological and physicochemical problems in our environment.
Methods of dealing with solid waste included the following:
- Sanitary Landfill
- Incineration
- Recovery and Recycling
- Composting
- Pyrolysis
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