Suhas Dixit

The major disadvantage of development and industrialisation is the pollution it causes to the earth – be it land, air, and water. As the  global population increases and the demand for food and other essentials rises. Proportionally, there's a rise in the amount of waste being generated. This waste is finally thrown into municipal waste collection centres from where the waste is collected by the area municipalities to be further dumped into the landfills. However, either due to resource deficiency or inefficient infrastructure, not all of this waste gets collected and transported to the final dumpsites. If the management and disposal of waste  is improperly done, it can cause serious health impact and problems to the surrounding environment. Waste that is not properly managed, such as excreta and other liquid and solid waste from households and the community, are a serious health hazard and lead to the spread of various infectious diseases....

On average, each one of us produces 4.4 pounds of solid waste each day. This adds up to almost a ton of trash per person, per year. Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted. About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material! The highest point in Hamilton County, Ohio (near Cincinnati) is "Mount Rumpke." It is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill towering 1045 ft. above sea level. The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste. A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill. Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away! Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person. If all our newspaper was rec...

Waste management  or  Waste disposal  is all the activities and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.This includes among other things, collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste together with monitoring and regulation. It also encompasses the legal and regulatory framework that relates to waste management encompassing guidance on recycling etc. Plastic Waste The term normally relates to all kinds of waste, whether generated during the extraction of raw materials, the processing of raw materials into intermediate and final products, the consumption of final products, or other human activities, including municipal (residential, institutional, commercial), agricultural, and social (health care, household hazardous waste, sewage sludge). Waste management is intended to reduce adverse effects of waste on health, the environment. The life-cycle begins with design, then proceeds throug...

Electronic waste, or e-waste, are electronic products that have become unwanted or non-working, and hence are thrown into waste. As technology advances at such a high rate, many electronic devices become “waste” after a few short years of use as the users upgrade their devices very quickly. In fact, whole categories of old electronic items contribute to e-waste when new ones are available in the market, such as telephones being replaced by mobiles players, and mobiles are replaced every 2 years as better models are launched. E-waste is waste created from anything electronic: computers, TVs, air conditioners, mobile phones, VCRs, CD players, fax machines, printers, etc. Electronic waste is rapidly filling the landfills of the globe. In the US, more than 100 million computers are discarded with less than 20% being recycled properly. Whereas, India just recycles 4% of the e-waste. Globally, as much as 60 million metric tons enter landfills every year. These electronics contain som...