Garbage and Waste Management India

Morning to evening, from the time I wake to the time I sleep, toxic waste is all I breathe, toxic waste is all I see! When will this end, when will our culture allow us to change our habits, or are we all in this bunny rabbit race of consumption and disposal. Keep your house clean and dirty that of your neighbors; shame, shame so called educated people travel abroad and change, but here in our country all we do is litter and complain! That’s your trash, I saw you throw it out of your car window, I saw you empty it out in the street, but the other day I met you at a social gathering, talking between your friends, I herd you mention how the country is going to the dogs, how the so called uneducated are spoiling it for you all! Paradox! Mr. Mr. to get your act in order, time to stop paying lip service, time to visit a doctor, because the problem is not with every one else, the problem is with you, the problem is with your thought process, the problem is your sense of entitlement. Lets shed our skin and show our color, saffron, white and green , lets take this as a challenge and prove the cynics wrong , Indian will be cleaned if we all work along!

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How Landfills Works

HOW LANDFILLS WORK

­You­ have just finished your meal at a fast food restaurant and you throw your uneaten food, food wrappers, drink cup, utensils and napkins into the trash can. You don't think about that waste again. On trash pickup day in your neighborhood, you push your can out to the curb, and workers dump the contents into a big truck and haul it away. You don't have to think about that waste again, either. But maybe you have wondered, as you watch the trash truck pull away, just where that garbage ends up.

Americans generate trash at an astonishing rate of 4.6 pounds (2.1 kilograms) per day per person, which translates to 251 million tons (228 million metric tons) per year [source: EPA]. This is almost twice as much trash per person as most other major countries. What happens to this trash? Some gets recycled or recovered and some is burned, but the majority is buried in landfills. In this article, we will examine how a landfill is made, what happens to the trash in landfills, what problems are associated with a landfill and how these problems are solved.

Operations

  During landfill operations the waste collection vehicles are weighed at a weighbridge on arrival and their load is inspected for wastes that do not accord with the landfill’s waste acceptance criteria. Afterward, the waste collection vehicles use the existing road network on their way to the tipping face or working front where they unload their load. After loads are deposited, compactors or dozers are used to spread and compact the waste on the working face. Before leaving the landfill boundaries, the waste collection vehicles pass through the wheel cleaning facility. If necessary, they return to the weighbridge in order to be weighed without their load. Through the weighing process, the daily incoming waste tonnage can be calculated and listed in databases. In addition to trucks, some landfills may be equipped to handle railroad containers. The use of 'rail-haul' permits landfills to be located at more remote sites, without the problems associated with many truck trips.

  Typically, in the working face, the compacted waste is covered with soil daily. Alternative waste-cover materials are several sprayed-on foam products and temporary blankets. Blankets can be lifted into place with tracked excavators and then removed the following day prior to waste placement. Chipped wood and chemically 'fixed' bio-solids may also be used as an alternate daily cover. The space that is occupied daily by the compacted waste and the cover material is called a daily cell. Waste compaction is critical to extending the life of the landfill. Factors such as waste compressibility, waste layer thickness and the number of passes of the compactor over the waste affect the waste densities.

Impacts

  A large number of adverse impacts may occur from landfill operations. These impacts can vary: fatal accidents (e.g., scavengers buried under waste piles); infrastructure damage (e.g., damage to access roads by heavy vehicles); pollution of the local environment (such as contamination of groundwater and/or aquifers by leakage and residual soil contamination during landfill usage, as well as after landfill closure); offgassing of methane generated by decaying organic wastes (methane is a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide, and can itself be a danger to inhabitants of an area); harbouring of disease vectors such as rats and flies, particularly from improperly operated landfills, which are common in developing countries; injuries to wildlife; and simple nuisance problems (e.g., dust, odour, vermin, or noise pollution).

Waste Management "What the f*** is that?

Waste up With Waste Management India!


Waste Management in India is still unorganized and looked down upon. Most individuals have no idea as what happens with waste once it is collected from their house or dumped at the local community dump site. In fact in our country the field of waste management is frowned upon, due to cultural and social beliefs.

I am speaking from experience here! I have had over four years of hard core, practical, grass root experience in the field of Waste management in India and have created a successful company Eco Wise Waste Management in this period. There have been a lot of cosmetic changes in India in the last five years, new roads, the metro, a new international airport topped off with a booming economy. Yet where ever we go there is, dust, garbage, construction debris, and litter! The question I ask myself is, why do we as people not care or make an effort to try and change things? After all we share the same space, breathe the same air and proudly call this country ours.

Consider this for a moment; you are walking down Lajpat Nagar in south Delhi munching on some Lay’s chips. You are now done with your chips and conveniently dispose the packaging on the street. Hey everyone is doing it, no one is going to stop you and you more so it does not affect you. But when you think about the thousands of people walking on the street doing the same thing that you did the effects are grave. We have got so used to acting without thinking that even urinating in open spaces in front of people brings little or no shame to us.

One of our national heroes Mahatma Ghandi once said cleanliness is next to godliness. Well there is a lot of godliness and a very little cleanliness prevalent in our country today. Many things are done in our country in the name of God, why not add cleaning the country to it! Next time you feel the urge to litter, or dump your garbage on the corner of the street, think of what you are teaching your children, think of what you are telling the people and visitors to our country (I don’t give a shit) and most of all think of yourself and the cause and effects of your actions.

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