WASTE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS AND ITS TECHNIQUES
What is Waste Management ? Let’s start with the basics first. So generally, we can classify wastes into 4 major categories i.e. Industrial waste (scrap metals, trash, oil, solvents, chemicals, etc.), Domestic waste (fruits & vegetable peel, paper, cardboard, etc.) Commercial waste (Cafeteria waste, paper, cardboard, etc.) and Agricultural waste (crop residues, weeds, leaf litter, etc.). Waste management is the treatment process of these wastes that includes the following steps: Collection, Transport, Valorization, and Disposal The main principles of waste management are: The most common & fundamental rule of waste management “3Rs rule” i.e. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Among them, the reduction should be our primary goal. It is the extended producer responsibility to add all the environmental costs as well as end-of-life disposal costs to the value of a product. Also, the “The polluter pays” principle which requires the waste generator to...