Solid Waste Pollution

SOLID WASTE
POLLUTION
SUBMITTED BY
Vrintha. D. B
 Solid waste pollution Is caused mainly
Introduction through urbanization and through
industrial waste.
 Solid waste is the unwanted or useless solid
materials generated from human activities in
residential, industrial or commercial areas. It
may be categorised in three ways.
Solid Waste  Origin :- domestic, industrial, commercial,
construction or institutional.
Pollution
 contents :-organic material, glass, metal, plastic
paper etc.
 hazard potential :- toxic, non-toxin, flammable,
radioactive, infectious etc.
 Municipal Solid Waste (MSW): It consists of household
waste, construction and demolition debris, sanitation
residue, and waste from streets, generated mainly from
residential and commercial complexes.
 Industrial Solid Waste (ISW): In a majority of cases it is
termed as hazardous waste as they may contain toxic
substances, are corrosive, highly inflammable, or react
Types of when exposed to certain things.
solid waste  Biomedical waste or hospital waste: It is usually infectious

waste that may include waste like sharps, disposables,
anatomical waste, discarded medicines, chemical wastes,
etc., usually in the form of disposable syringes, swabs,
bandages, body fluids, human excreta, etc. These can be a
serious threat to human health if not managed in a
scientific and discriminate manner.
 Over population
Is a Great Factoring Which Influence the Rise in Pollution.
 Urbanisation.
Cause of
waste is an urban problem where people have the
habit of using of variety of commodities and discarding them
solid waste afterwards.
pollution  Affluence
In an affluent society, the per capita consumption is very
high and people discard many items regularly, which increase
solid waste to a large extent.
 Technology
It has changed the culture of using things. It is distinctly
apparent in package industry for most economic goods. There
is a shift in technology from the returnable packaging to non-
returnable packaging. For example, the returnable glass
container or bottles are being replaced by non-returnable
cans, plastic containers, plastic bottles etc. Since packaging
materials like those made from plastic and non-
biodegradable, they are largely responsible for causing solid
waste pollution.
Environmental impacts
 Leachates from refuge dumps percolates into the
soil and contaminate underground water.
 Scavengers and stray animals invade the roadside
Effect of garbage and litter the waste over large area causing
solid waste much aesthetic damage to the atmosphere .
 Waste products when burnt like plastic and rubber
pollution pollute the atmosphere with noxious fumes.
Health impact
 Vectorsectors like rats and insects invade refuse
dumps and spread various diseases.
 During handling and transfer of hospital and
clinic wastes, disease transmission may take
place.
 Water and food contamination through flies
causes various diseases in humans as dysentery,
diarrhea etc
 Rats dwelling with infectious solid wastes may
spread diseases like plague, salmonellosis,
trichinosis, endemic typhis.
 Minamata-It is a case of human mercury
poisoning which occurred in minimart bay
in japan. A large plastic plants located near
the minamata bay used mercury to produce
vinyl chloride, the left over mercury was
dumped into bay which entered in tissues
of fish, which in turn were consumed by
people living in that area. The
contaminated fish thus caused an
outbreak of poisoning, killing and affecting
several people.
 Disposal
It is done most commonly through a sanitary landfill
or through incineration.
 Incineration
Solid waste it is the process of burning municipal solid waste in a
properly designed furnace under suitable temperature
management and operating conditions.
 Composting
bacterial decomposition of organic components of
the municipal waste result in the formation of humus
or compost and the process is known as composting.
 Recycling
It means reusing some components of the waste
that may have some economic value. Recycling
conserves resources, reduce the energy used during
manufacture and also reduce pollution.
 Source recovery (pyrolysis)
it is a kind of destructive distillation in which the
solid wastes are heated in pyrolysis reactor at 650-
1000 degree centigrade in oxygen depleted
environment. By this process, the chemical
constituents and chemical energy of some organic
wastes are recovered.
 Source reduction
It is one of the fundamental ways to reduce waste.
This can be done by using less material when making a
product, reusing products, designing products
packaging to reduce their quantity. Individually one
can reduce the use of unnecessary items which causes
solid waste
 it is the immense need of present times to get rid
from solid waste pollution. Solid waste is harmful for
the environment whether it exists in solid, liquid or
Conclusion gaseous form.It may cause water, air and soil
pollution also. It can be controlled effectively
through solid waste management.

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SOLID WASTE

solid waste  Biomedical waste or hospital waste: It is usually infectious

solid waste afterwards.

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