Solid Waste Management Program
Integrated solid waste management is a primary concern today. Its elements include storage, transfer, transportation, processing, and disposal to environmental adaptable to principles of conservation, energy, and aesthetic. The first element is the waste generation, where materials that are not in use or value and are set away or put together for disposal. Waste generation is a challenge, and systematic means to limit the amount of waste from the source — secondly, waste handling, selection, and preparing from the source. Waste handling involves sorting and identifies the ways and storage containers. Processing consists of the movement of waste containers from the collection. The households are aware of the primary benefit due to public health issues and the aesthetics of the environment (McDougall et al., 2008). Families and commercial management give the provision and cost of waste containers in the household to industrial properties. The transport of the waste materials, after collection from the source, disposal area. The fourth element is sorting, processing, and transformation — the processing of solid waste, and change in a different city from generation point. The sorting of mixed wastes is mostly in the combustion facilities or the disposal sites. Sorting is, at times, manual selection, as well as the sorting of the ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Waste transformation reduces weight or size. The transportation and transfer element involve transportation of waste to the processing and disposal site. Finally, the disposal of residues in the dumping areas has become a challenge. Application of municipal robust waste landfill plant in disposing of solid wastes is essential to avoid creating a hazard to safety, which contribute to breeding insects and pollution of water sources.
References
McDougall, F. R., White, P. R., Franke, M., & Hindle, P. (2008). Integrated solid waste management: a life cycle inventory. John Wiley & Sons.