Review for MSWM in Indian Cities and Town
Abstract- Solid waste is defined as thing that cannot be further use for the purpose and discarded things from community. Generally MSWM include collection, transportation and disposal of solid waste. Urbanization and industrialization has created a great challenge for managing the solid waste because of change in quality and increasing in quantity of waste generation. This challenge make it more complex to manage municipal solid waste around the world. The developing country like India, MSWM is major issues. In last many years waste generation rate of India is increased. This generally happens due to rapid growth and change in life style. Themajor issues related to MSWM in India is that there is not 100% segregation at household level and 90% of solid waste is directly disposed to land. Some suggested remedies for MSWM are increasing the source separation, implementing some tax on MSW collection so that funds for recourses can be adjust and protection of groundwater from leachate.
Authors: Raj Parmar, Dr. Arti Pamnani