Solid Waste Management

          Solid waste management includes all activities that seek to minimize the health, environmental and aesthetic impacts of solid wastes.

1. Basic definitions

Solid waste can be defined as material that no longer has any value to the person who is responsible for it, and is not intended to be discharged through a pipe. It does not normally include human excreta. It is generated by domestic, commercial, industrial, healthcare, agricultural and mineral extraction activities and accumulates in streets and public places.

The controlling, Handling and Disposal of all solid waste. One goal of solid waste management is to reduce waste to the least amount possible.

Everything that must be done to handle the trash produced in a community.

Supervised handling of waste materials from their sources through recovery processes to disposal.

Related to storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing, and final disposal of solid waste or resource recovery, and facilities necessary for such activities.

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