Improving Municipal Solid Waste Management in India : A Sourcebook for Policy Makers and Practitioners

Human activities create waste, and the ways that waste is handled, stored, collected, and disposed of can pose risks to the environment and to public health. Solid waste management (SWM) includes all activities that seek to minimize health, environmental, and aesthetic impacts of solid waste. In urban areas, especially in the rapidly urbanizing cities of the developing world, problems and issues of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) are of immediate importance. This book addresses the problem by focusing on India. A country such as India, with its high economic growth and rapid urbanization, requires immediate solutions to the problems related to mismanagement of urban waste. City managers are actively trying to understand the problem and are seeking effective ways of intervening. They realize that such interventions are essential to improving the quality of their cities and to reducing adverse health and environmental impacts. For cities to be sustainable and to continue their economic development, they must be clean and healthy. They need to improve their SWM systems by adopting good collection coverage, appropriate transfer methods, and healthy disposal practices.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Asnani, P. U., Zhu, Da, Zurbrügg, Chris, Mani, Shyamala, Anapolsky, Sebastian
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2008
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL WASTE, ANAEROBIC DIGESTION, ANIMAL EXCRETA, ANIMAL WASTE, ANIMALS, ASH, BACKACHE, BIODEGRADABLE MATERIAL, BIODEGRADABLE WASTE, BURIAL, CARBON DIOXIDE, CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL TREATMENT, CHEMICAL WASTE, COLLECTED WASTE, COLLECTION FREQUENCY, COLLECTION OF WASTE, COLLECTION OF WASTES, COLLECTION ROUTES, COLLECTION SYSTEMS, COLLECTION VEHICLES, COMMERCIAL WASTE, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, COMPOST, COMPOST MARKETING, COMPOST QUALITY, COMPOST QUALITY STANDARDS, COMPOSTING, CONSTRUCTION, CONSTRUCTION WASTE, COOLING, DECISION MAKING, DEMOLITION DEBRIS, DEMOLITION WASTE, DISINFECTANTS, DISPOSAL, DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES, DISPOSAL FACILITIES, DISPOSAL OF WASTE, DISPOSAL PRACTICES, DISPOSAL PROBLEM, DISPOSAL SITE, DISPOSAL SITES, DOMESTIC SOLID WASTE, DOMESTIC WASTE, DRAINS, DUMPING GROUND, DUMPS, ENERGY RECOVERY, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, FATIGUE, FINAL DISPOSAL, FIRES, FOOD WASTE, GARBAGE, GAS EMISSIONS, GASIFICATION, GENERATION OF WASTE, GHG, GLASS, GREENHOUSE GASES, GROUNDWATER, HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS, HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIAL, HAZARDOUS WASTE, HAZARDOUS WASTE HEALTH CARE, HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT, HEALTH CARE WASTE, HEALTH HAZARDS, HOSPITALS, HOUSEHOLD WASTE, HUMAN EXCRETA, HUMAN FECAL MATTER, HYGIENE, INCINERATION, INCINERATORS, INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE, INDUSTRIAL WASTE, INFECTIOUS WASTE, INORGANIC MATERIALS, INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT, LANDFILL, LANDFILL DISPOSAL, LANDFILL GAS, LANDFILL GAS RECOVERY, LANDFILL SITES, LANDFILLING, LANDFILLS, LARGE LANDFILLS, LAWS, LEACHATE, LIQUID WASTE, LITTER, LITTER BINS, LIVING CONDITIONS, LOCATION, MANURE, MEDICINES, METHANE, METHANE EMISSIONS, METROPOLITAN CITIES, MSW, MUNICIPAL SOLID, MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE, MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE COMPOSITION, MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT, MUNICIPAL WASTE, MUNICIPAL WASTE SERVICE, NIMBY, NONHAZARDOUS INDUSTRIAL WASTE, NURSING, NURSING HOMES, NUTRIENTS, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, ODORS, OPEN DUMPS, OPEN TRUCKS, ORGANIC MATTER, ORGANIC WASTE, PARASITES, PLASTIC, POLLUTANTS, POLLUTION, POLLUTION CONTROL, POROSITY, PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE, PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, PYROLYSIS, QUALITY OF LIFE, RECOVERY SYSTEMS, RECYCLABLE MATERIAL, RECYCLABLE MATERIALS, RECYCLABLE WASTE, RECYCLING, RECYCLING COOPERATIVES, RECYCLING INDUSTRY, REFRIGERATORS, REFUSE, RESOURCE RECOVERY, RUBBISH, SALVAGING, SANITARY LANDFILL, SANITARY LANDFILLS, SANITATION, SANITATION FACILITIES, SANITATION WORKERS, SMOKE, SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL, SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, SOLID WASTE SECTOR, SOLID WASTE SERVICES, SOLID WASTE STREAM, SOLID WASTES, SPARE PARTS, SPECIAL WASTE, STREET CLEANING, STREET SWEEPINGS, SWM, TOXIC SUBSTANCES, TRASH, TREATMENT OF WASTE, UNEMPLOYMENT, URBAN POPULATION GROWTH, URBAN WASTE, VERMICOMPOSTING, VIRUSES, WASTE COLLECTION, WASTE COLLECTION POINTS, WASTE COLLECTION SERVICE, WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES, WASTE COLLECTORS, WASTE DISPOSAL, WASTE DISPOSAL SITES, WASTE FACILITIES, WASTE GENERATION, WASTE MANAGEMENT CHAIN, WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, WASTE MANAGERS, WASTE MATERIALS, WASTE MINIMIZATION, WASTE PLASTICS, WASTE QUANTITIES, WASTE RECOVERY, WASTE RECYCLING, WASTE SEGREGATION, WASTE SOURCE, WASTE STORAGE, WASTE TRANSPORT, WASTE TREATMENT, WASTE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES, WASTE TYPES, WASTE · COLLECTION, WASTES, WATER RESOURCE, WORKERS, WORKING CONDITIONS, WORMS, YELLOW FEVER,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/9030960/improving-municipal-solid-waste-management-india-sourcebook-policy-makers-practitioners https://hdl.handle.net/10986/6916
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