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This document discusses different types of solid waste including domestic waste, e-waste, liquid waste, plastic waste, metal waste, and nuclear waste. It describes methods of managing solid waste such as recycling, which can reduce environmental degradation, make money from waste, and save energy. The aims of waste management are to gain benefits from recycling, generate minimum waste, and reduce the negative impacts on the environment. Sources of solid waste include domestic, commercial, ashes, animal, biomedical, construction, and industrial wastes. The document also notes the large amounts of solid and hazardous waste generated in India each year and some of the effects of solid waste like impacts on health, socio-economics, environment, climate, and sea levels.

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Solid Waste1

This document discusses different types of solid waste including domestic waste, e-waste, liquid waste, plastic waste, metal waste, and nuclear waste. It describes methods of managing solid waste such as recycling, which can reduce environmental degradation, make money from waste, and save energy. The aims of waste management are to gain benefits from recycling, generate minimum waste, and reduce the negative impacts on the environment. Sources of solid waste include domestic, commercial, ashes, animal, biomedical, construction, and industrial wastes. The document also notes the large amounts of solid and hazardous waste generated in India each year and some of the effects of solid waste like impacts on health, socio-economics, environment, climate, and sea levels.

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Solid waste

management
Waste an unwanted material
which is not used

Classification Domestic waste

Factory waste

Waste from oil

E-waste

Construction waste

Agricultural waste

Food waste
Classification:
Solid waste - kitchen waste, household waste etc.

E-waste - discarded electronic devices


like tevisions,computers etc.

Liquid waste - water used for different industries


distilleries,thermal power plants etc

Plastic waste - plastic bags, bottles, buckets etc.


Metal waste - unused metal sheet,metalscraps
Nuclear waste - unused materials fromnuclear power
plants
Managing solid waste:

Recycling:
-Processing of a waste item into usable forms.
Benefits of recycling:
-Reduce environmental degradation
-Making money out of waste
-Save energy that would have gone into waste handling & product
manufacture

Saving through recycling:


-When Al is resmelted- considerable saving in cost
-Making paper from waste saves 50% energy
-Every tone of recycled glass saves energy equivalent to 100 liters of oil
Aim of waste
Management:
• To gain benefits from
recycling

• To generate minimum
amount of waste

•Reduce negetive
impact on environment
Sources of solid waste::

Domestic wastes - paper, plastic, glass,


ceramics,vegetable wastes

Commercial wastes -printerpaper,meatremnants

Ashes - coal, wood and coke.

Animal Wastes - dung of animals rejected feed


Biomedical Wastes -expired drugs,
plasticsy ranges,
surgical dressings

Construction Wastes - metal rods, bricks, roofing


materials,electricity,drainage

Industrial Solid Wastes -garment factory textile


dumps

Sewer -removed from sewerage


left on the roadside
Solid Waste
Solid waste in India::
• 7.2 million tonnes of hazardous waste

• One Sq km of additional landfill area every-year

• Rs 1600 crore for treatment & disposal of these wastes

• In addition to this industries discharge about 150 million


tonnes of high volume low hazard waste every year,
which is mostly dumped on open low lying land areas.
TERI Projections on Waste Generation In India
French aircraft carrier Clemenceau
Effects of solid waste::

• Affects our health

• Affects our socio-economic conditions

• Affects our coastal and marine environment

• Affects our climate

• Rise in global temperatures

• Rise in sea levels


Solution:
 Exchanging output that are considered waste

 Waste of one could be input or raw material for others

 Evolving a closed system- matter & energy circulate within

 System was not designed to be so

 The system of exchange evolved in 10 years

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