Solid waste management: A review

Abstract

Solid wastes are major problem for our environment. It is useless or discarded material which increasing year by year and they are many options for handling and disposing of these wastes. The management of solid waste occurs at various methods like segregation, collection, transfer and transport, reuse and recycling etc. This study recommended that municipal solid waste management has become a major problem due to increased economic activities. Increasing population enhanced the solid waste generation as a result waste disposed in an unplanned manner and burned by the residents in their backyards. In this paper greater emphasis has been given to use the various techniques for the management of solid waste like landfilling, composting, sanitary landfilling, thermal treatment etc.