Solid Waste Management: Methods and Effects

Solid Waste
Management.
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Meaning
• Collection and treatment of solid wastes.
• Solutions for reprocessing items not
categorized as trash or garbage.
Solid waste management is the process of how to transform solid wastes into
valuable resources. One of the main negative impacts of industrialization is
the formation of solid wastes (Hoornweg and Bhada-Tata, 2012). Therefore,
solid waste management ought to be adopted by each household.

Introduction
• Solid waste management involves
the collection, treatment and effective
disposal of solid materials.
• The materials have served their
purpose hence are no longer needed.
The management of solid waste is vital because the materials might
create unsanitary an unhealthy conditions. Consequently, these
conditions can result in environmental pollution or disease outbreaks
more so vector-borne ailments which are spread by insects and
rodents.

Solid waste management methods.
1. Sanitary Landfill
• Garbage spread in tinny layers
• The bottom part of landfill
covered with an impermeable liner
(Qasim, 2017).
Conventionally, garbage is spread out in small layers, compressed and
then covered with plastic foam. Impervious liner prevents contamination
of groundwater.