Urban waste management: Socio-economic status and waste management practices

Abstract

Solid waste has been produced since the beginning of civilization. Solid waste management is one of the most neglected aspects of India’s environment. Municipal solid waste (management and handling) Rules 2000 have made it mandatory for the administrative authority of any area to undertake responsibility for all activities relating to municipal solid waste management. The present investigation had been conducted in Jalpaiguri Municipality of West Bengal. In Jalpaiguri Municipality there are altogether 25 wards, 10 respondents have been selected from each of 25 wards thus the total sample size was 250. The result had shown that municipal waste collection were two types i.e. domestic waste collection system, market waste collection system. Total 15 markets were there and11000kg waste per day collected and 260 kg wastes per day were collected from 7 hotels. The study also reveals that total 710kg and average 2.84 kg wastes generated per day from households. The study also revealed that total 52510kg wastes per day generated from Jalpaiguri municipality out of which 29490 kg of wastes were bio-degradable and 23020kg of wastes were non-biodegradable.