Waste disposal management

1. Waste disposal management
What is waste?
Waste is unwanted or unusablematerial. Waste is any substancewhich is discarded after primary use, or it is
worthless, defectiveand of no use.
Types of wastes
Waste comes in many different forms and may be categorized in a variety of ways
Agriculturalwaste
Animal by-products
Biodegradable waste
Biomedical waste
Chemical waste
Clinical waste
Household waste
Household hazardous waste

2. Human waste
Radioactive
Municipal solid wastewaste
What is waste management?
Waste management is all the activities and actions required to manage wastefromits inception to its final
disposal.
This includes amongst other things, collection, transport, treatment and disposalof wastetogether with
monitoring and regulation.
Waste management techniques
Disposal solutions include:
1. Landfill
2. Incineration
3. Recycling

3. Landfills
landfill is the most practiced in more areas of the world than any other method.
Landfills areoften old and abandoned quarries and mining areas.
Considered the mostcost-effective way of waste disposal, about75% of the cost of implementation is
attributable to the collection and transportation of wastefromresidential and businesses to the landfills.
The waste is layered in thin spreads and then compacted, with a layer of clean earth covering the waste material
before morelayers are added over time.
Incineration
disposalmethod in which solid organic wastes aresubjected to combustion so as to convertthem into residue
and gaseous products.
This process reduces the volumes of solid waste to 20 to 30 percent of the original volume.
Incineration and other high temperature waste treatment systems aresometimes described as "thermal
treatment".

4. Incinerators convertwastematerials into heat, gas, steam, and ash.
Recycling
Recycling is a resourcerecovery practicethat refers to the collection and reuse of waste materials such as empty
beverage containers.
The materials from which the items are made can be reprocessed into new products
In some communities, the owner of the wasteis required to separate the materials into differentbins (e.g. for
paper, plastics, metals) prior to its collection.
In other communities, all recyclable materials are placed in a single bin for collection, and the sorting is handled
later at a central facility. The latter method is known as "single-streamrecycling.
The most common consumer products recycled include aluminiumsuch as beverages cans,
copper such as wire, steel fromfood and aerosol cans, old steel furnishings or equipment, rubber tyres,
polyethylene, glass bottles and jars, paperboard cartons, newspapers, magazines and lightpaper, and corrugated
fiberboard boxes

5. other methods
Re-use includes
 Biological reprocessing: Recoverablematerials that are organic in nature, such as plant material, food
scraps, and paper products, can be recovered through composting and digestion processes to decompose
the organic matter. The resulting organic material is then recycled as mulch or compostfor agriculturalor
landscaping purposes.
 Energy recovery; Energy recovery fromwasteis the conversion of non-recyclablewaste materials into
usable heat, electricity, or fuel through a variety of processes, including combustion, gasification,
pyrolyzation, anaerobic digestion, and landfill gas recovery also called as waste-to-energy.
 Pyrolysis; Pyrolysis is a process of thermo-chemicaldecomposition of organic materials by heat in the
absence of oxygen which produces various hydrocarbon gases.
 Resourcerecovery; Itis the processing of recyclables to extract or recover materials and resources, or
convertto energy
 Sustainability.

6.  Avoidanceand reduction methods, An important method of wastemanagement is the prevention of waste
material being created, also known as waste reduction.
Methods of avoidance include reuse of second-hand products, repairing broken items instead of buying
new, designing products to be refillable.
Benefits of waste management
Waste can be a valuable resourceif addressed correctly, through policy and practice.
With rational and consistentwaste management practices there is an opportunity to reap a range of
benefits.
Those benefits include:
1. Economic
2. Social
3. Environmental
4. Inter-generationalEquity