3. What is Solid Waste?
Solid waste is the
unwanted or useless
solid materials
generated from
combined residential,
industrial and
commercial activities in
a given area.
4. Let’s know more of it :
Definition- Any useless, discarded, unwanted
material that is not a liquid or gas is referred as solid
waste or refuse.
Solid wastes: wastes in solid forms, domestic,
commercial and industrial wastes Examples: plastics ,
bottles, cans, papers, scrap iron, and other trash
5. Solid Waste : It is non liquid , non gaseous material
ranging from municipal garbage to industrial waste
that contain complex and sometimes hazardous
substances.
6. Cont … … … .
Solid waste also include
Garbage
Rubbish
Demolition products
Sewage treatment residue
Dead animals
Manure and other discarded
material Garbage bunker
7. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS:
What is solid waste management ?
Simply solid waste management means managing the solid
waste for the betterment of environment and all living being
Why do we need to manage the solid waste ?
Solid waste can cause health, safety and economic problems
Damage the Earth’s ecosystem
Moreover it’s a RED ALLERT for our Environment & etc.
This is why we need SWM
10. Objective of Solid Waste management :
To identify types of solid wastes and their sources
To examine the physical and chemical composition.
To consider the elements involved in management.
To minimize the adverse environmental impacts
11. Materials:
Materials used for Solid Waste Management (SWM)
Separators
Sorting plants
Conveyor belts
Waste balers
Bulldozers(used to work in landfills)
Garbage Bunker
19. Solution For Bangladesh
Reduce your waste in 4 way
Control Waste
Avoid wasting food
Avoid unwanted
products.
Think before shop
Distribute unwanted goods to others
21. Solution For Bangladesh
1. Modern landfill
2. Incineration
3. waste handling practice
To get a stable waste management system in our country
we need to maintain some extra facilities such as
Developed countries using these method. Being an under
developing country we should follow their system
22.
23. Social Awareness:
Social awareness is the main thing that can give us a clean living place.
If we fail to manage the solid waste properly then it will be impossible
to manage the waste by government. For Bangladesh people we
should be more conscious about it.
Solution For Bangladesh
24.
25. References:
1)UN ESCAP, “Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the
Pacific 2009”.
Accessed
2)Solid Waste Management in Greater
Bombay, (September 2004)
3)Environmental Protection Agency
4)Rationality of solid waste management By
Ranjith Annepu .
5)KM Bahauddin & MH Uddin. 2012. Prospect
of Solid Waste Situation and An Approach of
Environmental Management
Measure (EMM) Model for Sustainable Solid
Waste Management: Case Study of Dhaka City,
J. Environ. Sci. & Natural
Resources,