Integrated Sewage & Solid Waste Management System
“Waste management or Waste disposal is all the activities and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes amongst 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.”
You will find there are eight major groups of waste management methods, each of them divided into numerous categories. Those groups include source reduction and reuse, animal feeding, recycling, composting, fermentation, landfills, incineration and land application. You can start using many techniques right at home, like reduction and reuse, which works to reduce the amount of disposable material used.
There are certain waste types that are considered as hazardous and cannot be disposed of without special handling, which will prevent contamination from occurring. Bio medical waste is found in health care facilities and similar institutions. The special waste disposal system for this unit in place to dispose of this type of waste. As you can see there are plenty of important things that you should know about waste management and disposal in order to ensure that you are safe, as well as that you are keeping the environment safe. It is your choices as to how you will dispose of waste, however it is always in your best interest to take a look at all of the options that you have available before making the choice.
The economic and ecological value that can be recovered from waste treatment is strongly linked to the quality and degree of separation of incoming waste. The segregation of waste at source prevents the organic waste from being mixed with inorganic waste and helps to provide a clean organic feedstock, which is a prerequisite for producing good quality compost. Segregation of waste increases the profitability of recovering recyclables such as paper, glass, plastics, and metals, as they do not get soiled by the wet organic waste. Waste segregation also saves operational costs, as the workers spend less time sorting and cleaning the incoming waste.
The success of waste segregation at source is dependent on the commitment of the waste producers. It is important to build the capacity of communities, organizations, and local governments for participating in the process of segregating, collecting, processing and valorizing waste resources.
From the onset, the implementation process ensures that the participation of local and national governments, communities, non-government organizations, private enterprises, and other relevant local stakeholders is integral to the discussions on the vision, expected benefits, and operational requirements. Central to the discussions are considerations of the local social, economic, and policy related impacts, such as:
- Identification of the immediate beneficiaries and those that may be negatively impacted, and how any potential undesirable impacts can be minimized.
- Employment of vulnerable members of society such as informal waste workers, women and homeless people with stable jobs.
- Enhancement of public awareness of and responsibility in waste segregation and management.
- Levy of consumer fees for waste collection to provide improved waste management services.
- Identification and allocation of land and ascertainment of operational jurisdictions among local government entities.
- Redirection of local government funds and reorganizing available resources such as waste collection trucks and waste treatment equipment.
- Assessment of economic value chains and market variables for the recovered waste products.
- Ascertainment of availability and accessibility of national level support for local financial and technical capacity building.
