Importance Of Waste Management In India

The term “Waste management” includes all activities that involve managing the waste. These activities involve collection, transportation, sorting, reuse, treatment, recycling, storage and monitoring of waste. Waste management also has other activities that do not involve handling waste directly, such as educating waste generators, budgeting, financing and ensuring compliance with regulations.

Thegoal of waste managementis to utilise the collected waste (by reusing, recycling and/or selling waste materials) to the maximum, and at the same time, limit negative effects like:

cost for managing the waste
need for storage space
unavailability of resources that create the waste
potential adverse effects on people's health and/or the environment

To achieve these goals in the best possible way, waste managers and policymakers use the 'waste hierarchy'. From top (best option) to bottom (least favourable option), these options are:

prevention
minimization
reuse
recycling
energy recovery (incineration)
storage (landfills)

Waste could be considered a viable and economical option when we run out of resources to produce energy and power. So come join Humanity Welfare Councilto bring about a change in waste management in India.