Solid Waste Management
Due to
population growth and tremendous consumerism, exploitation of natural resources
is at its peak. And we have an important obligation to protect the environment
in front of us. When the whole world is uniting on the issue of Global Warming
and Climate Change, our greatest responsibility as a human being and society is
to live in harmony with nature and according to that we have to mold our genre.
SWM best step taken in this direction is being proved. Garbage disposal,
recycling, energy production from waste all these are called waste management.
Recycling makes many consumer goods available again in the market, which is
reducing the exploitation of natural resources. Recycling of aluminum, copper,
steel, glass, paper and many types of plastics can be done. By recycling of
metals, many items are available in the market and demand reduces in the mining
according to demand.
By recycling the paper, many
trees can be stopped to cut. At the same
time, the optimum utilization of the food used by the people is being made by
changing the organic waste from the houses in the garbage disposal to bio
compost and methane gas. While methane gas is the best source of energy,
organic fertilization is important to naturally increase soil fertility. It
also reduces dependence on farmers' artificial manure. Products made from
organic composts get a good price in the market.
Sustainable
development: Waste management is considered to be an important component of
sustainable development. Sustainable development refers to the environmentally
friendly and long-term development. Consumption and reuse of garbage management
creates a cycle that reduces our dependence on natural resources to a lesser
extent and reduces their harness. So, these days, a lot of emphasis is placed
on garbage management while planning sustainable development.
Case Study:
One such system has been adopted
in Pratapgarh district of Rajasthan, adjacent to the Madhya Pradesh border.
Here a garbage vehicle has been started which revolves around different colonies
of the city at different times of the day to collect garbage from every house
in the town. Shweta Vyas, NGO Construction Services Organization, who manages
the management of this work, says that the garbage collected from this vehicle
is taken to a plant located a few miles away from the city.When collecting
garbage from the houses, it is taken care of that the wasteful waste such as food waste should be collected at
different places and recyclable dry waste at different places.
After
making the consciousness about it from the beginning, it has now become a habit
of people and the waste is collected in different categories at home level.
This saves the cost of isolating the waste at a widespread level. Bio compost
is made from wet wastes. In this entire campaign, the city council is also
supporting the organization, so the organic manure made is given to the city
council.
City
Council Chairman Kamlesh Dosi says that this organic manure is auctioned, which
gives the council additional income. And we can fulfill our responsibility to
give our citizens a clean city. Dry waste is currently being dumped into the
ground, but measures like recycling or making electricity are also being
considered. Since adopting this system, the spread of dirt-related diseases in
the city is reduced and the rotation of stray animals which are used to on food
waste has also decreased.
C S Singh
Asst. Prof (ME)
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