3. Learnings from international good practices
These examples and the lessons learnt could be helpful for policy makers in India while framing policies related to municipal solid waste management.
3.1. Brazil
The specific objectives of Brazilian natiоnal policy for solid waste management and the Law include:
• Adherence to waste hierarchy - a) reduce b) reuse c) recycle d) disposal of treated solid waste in an ecological manner must be promoted.
• The industries have to be incentivized to use recycled products.
• Environmental hazards must be minimized by adopting, developing and improving clean technologies.
• Integrating reusable and recyclable material collectоrs in actions that involve joint liability for product life cycle.
• Preference to green prоcurement i.e. purchase of recycled and recyclable products, goods, services and so on, such that it promotes social and environmental sustainability. The Brazilian government, in 2014, decided that all the unregulated landfills must be shut down. Moreover, individual or entities not complying with policies and are responsible for damage to environment are required to compensate the government for remedial actions. (TERI, 2015)
3.2. Europe
Several initiatives have also been taken by the European governments to ensure the safe disposal of solid waste to promote sustainability. Improvement in the effectiveness of waste treatment and disposal facilities, change of bio waste from landfills to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)
Identified wastes in the current processes using the seven wastes as a guide to what should be looked for. The question was asked, “Why did this waste occur?” and, “What can be done to prevent it?”.
The EPA has a ‘Waste Management Hierarchy’ and it begins with reducing and reusing what we consume in order to reduce waste.
The people around the world have been a realization that waste management systems are important to put in place in industrializes countries to reduce releases of cadmium into the environment.
In The Solid Waste Dilemma, An Agenda for Action published by the EPA/530-SW-89-019 in 1989, integrated waste management was referred to as “the complementary use of a variety of waste management practices to safely and effectively handle the MSW stream with the least adverse impact on human health and the environment.”
There are three main points when dealing with the sanitation and recycling company on how to manage garbage waste such as reuse, cut back and recycle. To understand about recycling and how all isn’t that difficult to do: it 's simply a matter of changing your disposable habit. Consequences of naught recycling resort in things like pollution, landfill build ups, reduces global warming, by not reusing, cutting back, and recycling we are destroying habitats, and energy consumptions.
The average resident produces seven and a half pounds of garbage every day that is buried down in landfills and litters lands costing a great amount of money. Nowadays, people face no more critical trouble than the need to save the weakening environment, mainly in urban areas, where solid wastes are uselessly dumped. It has been observed that cities have no controlled structure for garbage disposal. Each year, millions of dollars are spent picking up litter and more is thrown away in valuable materials that could be recycled. As humanity develops new technology and equipment, the level of waste increases every day. Due to the fact that there is a huge problem with garbage disposal, government representatives must contribute to resolving
In modern society, people produce a significant amount of waste, such as agricultural, nuclear, solid, or electronic waste. While some waste goes to the landfill in the United States, some are exported to developed and developing countries. These exports include hazardous waste and harmless waste, in which some of the countries specialize in recycling them, but even so, there has been controversies about improper disposal of wastes in other countries. Exportation laws in regards to waste export can be complex. In this paper, exportation regulations are explored in regards to waste will be explored, specifically some those that are directly related to the United States, and ethicality of such practices will be evaluated.
We, humans, are producing waste every day, polluting and destroying our planet. To save the world, many people believe recycling is the obvious solution. It is the process of converting certain waste into a reusable material. Therefore, the recycle motto is “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle”. However, have you ever wondered why the word recycle is placed at the end? Well, it’s because it is not the only way to reduce waste and save the world from global warming. Recycling may have many advantages, but its disadvantages’ list is not a short one either. Recycling may look very simple and easy method, but when there is a need for a new unit of waste recycling, it takes up a lot of space. Not to mention the amount of money the building costs along with paying the staffs, buying new utility vehicles, upgrading the recycling unit and different types of chemical disposals. It is not only expensive but also, unhygienic, unsafe and unsightly with piles of waste materials on every location. These wastes spread infectious diseases putting human health at risk. Aside from recycling
The main technological choices available for processing/ treatment and disposal of solid waste are composting, vermicomposting, anaerobic digestion/ biomethanation, incineration, gasification and pyrolysis, plasma pyrolysis, production of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF), also called as pelletization and sanitary landfilling/landfill gas recovery. Not all technologies are equally good. Each one of them has benefits and disadvantages.
However, there are several waste management methods, defined in this section. Each country has different policies, legislation, and thoughts about solid waste. This paper aims to compare different approaches of solid waste management and discuss their effectiveness. For this reason, it will be discussed the role for effective solid waste management of: legislation and government policies, and engagement of actors involved.
My main concern about waste disposal is toward poverty. In every society, for it to work effectively the waste disposal has to be handled properly. The lack of proper waste disposal can contribute for the underdevelopment of the community. For instance, in poorer community that does not have resources to dispose of the trash properly create a series of problems. For example, when there are a lot of trashes in a community, it will prevent investors to invest in a community, the housing market, schools and stores will decline, in consequence the houses will loose its value. This will create a ripple effect because people will start immigrating toward a better place where it is much cleaner. Families will try to move to a better place where their kids can have a better future. I ask myself who wants to live in a dirty environment? I hope nobody. That’s why I believe that the government should help the poorest communities about the ways to handle waste disposal, and better educate them about recycling.
Congress passed The Solid Waste Disposal Act in 1965. The Agency of Environmental Safety considered this Act as the primary effort made by federal authority for efficient waste clearance technology. This act controls the dumping material; manage storage and management of solid, both and non-precarious and precarious wastage. It highlights the processes that are environmentally liable to dispose waste at the commercial, municipal, industrial and household levels (Tchobanoglous & Vergara, 2010). This was considered as primary initiative of a chain of systems focusing on resource management and air cleaning (Gerlak, 2005). There have been several major adjustments made to the Act with the reference to Resource Recovery and Conservation Act (1976). The involvement of federal
Pollution is a major problem globally and it becomes greater as the human population continues to rise exponentially. One of the major problems with increased population is higher waste production, which creates increased air, soil, and water pollution. To resolve this problem waste reduction must be of primary importance in preventing and reducing pollution. Waste management can be an expensive undertaking if not managed correctly so sustainable practices must be addressed. While pollution prevention and reduction programs can be expensive if not managed correctly, waste reduction is essential for the reduction and prevention of pollution.
when we go arround we notice one annoying thing that is overflowing of garbage bins in public places due to excess disposal of waste which degrades the quality of environment in india.This even leads to bad smell unhygienic conditions for people and also spoils the beauty of environement at tourist places .Eventhough government take measures to overcome this problem but still it is continuing due to irresponsibility of people and improper management of waste.
Improvement of Drainage Canals, Construction/Improvement of Box Culverts, Improvement of Controlled Dumpsite and the Clean and Green Programs). Recently, the municipality acquired and procured a parcel of land (5,225 sq. m.) which was initially developed into a Municipal Sanitary Dumpsite of Controlled Dumpsite, and has purchased one-unit Multi-Cab for the collection and transportation of solid wastes in the urban areas.