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CONTENTS AZHARUL HAQUE
❑ Introduction.
❑ Solid waste management history.
❑ What is solid waste management.
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL
❑ Objective of solid waste management.
ENGINEERING
GOVERNMENT POLYTECHNIC
❑ Functional elements of the solid waste management system.
DHANARI,
❑ Categories AURANGABAD
of solid waste.
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❑ Conclusion.
Introduction
WASTE:
Depending on their physical state they are classified
as:
❑ Solid waste.
❑ Liquid waste.
❑ Gaseous waste.
SOLID WASTE:
Solid waste is the unwanted or useless solid materials
generated from combined residential, industrial, and
commercial activity in a given area.
Solid Waste Management History
During the ancient times, waste materials were carelessly thrown into streets
and rivers and left to accumulate. The growing piles of waste soon became a
threat to public health, causing plagues and epidemics. In 320 BC, the city of
Athens created the first known law that prohibits such careless disposal. Soon,
in ancient Rome, property owners were held responsible for tidying up the
streets in front of their properties.
At the end of the 14th century, scavengers were tasked with carting
away waste materials to dump sites outside the European city walls. It
was in America during the end of the 18th century that crude
municipal garbage collection began to take place, particularly in the
cities of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
A true technological and systematic approach to solid waste
management in the US was developed at the end of the 19th century.
Innovations such as watertight garbage cans, compactor vehicles,
garbage grinders, incinerators, and pneumatic collection systems
began to flourish.
Around 1950, improper dumping and burning of solid waste began to
cause environmental problems and threatened to endanger public
health.
What Is Solid Waste Management?

Solid waste management is the process of collection, transportation and disposal
of solid waste in a systematic, economic and hygienic manner.
or
Solid waste management is defined as the
discipline associated with control of
generation, storage, collection, transport or
transfer, processing and disposal of solid
waste materials in a way that best
addresses the range of public health,
conservation, economic, aesthetic,
engineering, and other environmental
considerations.
Objectives of Solid Waste

Management
Minimize environmental impact.
Protect public health.
Promote recycling and resource recovery.
Reduce landfill burden.
implement proper way segregation.
Functional Elements of the Solid

Waste Management System
1. Waste generation: This encompasses any activities involved in identifying materials that are no
longer usable and are either gathered for systematic disposal or thrown away.
2. Onsite handling, storage, and processing: This relates to activities at the point of waste
generation, which facilitate easier collection. For example, waste bins are placed at sites that
generate sufficient waste.
3. Waste collection: A crucial phase of waste management, this includes activities such as placing
waste collection bins, collecting waste from those bins, and accumulating trash in the location
where the collection vehicles are emptied. Although the collection phase involves transportation, this
is typically not the main stage of waste transportation.
4. Waste transfer and transport: These are the activities involved in moving waste from the local waste
collection locations to the regional waste disposal site in large waste transport vehicles.
5. Waste processing and recovery: This refers to the facilities, equipment, and techniques employed to
recover reusable or recyclable materials from the waste stream and to improve the effectiveness of
other functional elements of waste management.
6. Disposal: The final stage of waste management. It involves the activities aimed at the systematic
disposal of waste materials in locations such as landfills or waste-to-energy facilities.
Categories of solid Waste
1. Organic waste: Kitchen waste, waste from food preparation,

vegetables, flowers, leaves, fruits etc.
2. Combustibles: Paper, wood, dried leaves, packaging for relief
items etc. that are highly organic and having low moisture
content.
3. Non-combustibles: Metal, Tins, Cans, bottles, stones, etc.
4. Toxic waste: Old medicines, paints, chemicals, bulbs, spray
cans, fertilizer and pesticide containers, batteries, shoe
polish.
5. Recyclables: Paper, glass, metals, plastics.
Categories of Waste
6. Ashes or Dust: Residue from fires that are used for cooking.
7. Construction waste: Rubble, roofing, broken concrete etc.
8. Hazardous waste: Oil, battery acid, medical waste, industrial
waste, hospital waste.
9. Dead animals: Carcasses of dead livestock or other
animals.
10. Bulky waste: Tree branches, tires etc.
11. Soiled waste: Hospital waste such as cloth soiled with
blood and other body fluids.
Conclusion
As long as there is human activity, solid waste will

be a part of us. But the good thing is that by
exercising a sense of responsibility and following
sensible regulations, we can definitely live a better and
cleaner life even with solid waste around.
ACT Enviro is your partner in safe, compliant solid
waste management. To know more about our services,
contact our team today.
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