Community-based ecological solid waste management

The solid waste problem and its management has become a serious global concern. The unabated rapidly swelling population and increasing urbanisation have contributed to the generation of solid wastes especially in urban and urbanising areas, this paper deals with very practical methods and biological approaches to solid waste management with a zero-waste situation in view. These approaches include the conversion of non-degradable waste into commercially profitable products. The paper deals with the ‘multiple- F’ total recycling scheme for domestic waste and steps for community-wide implementation. This technology would ensure reduction in soil and surface/underground water contamination and would furthermore reduce problems relating to health, ecology, economics and aesthetics. However, in so much as people are the greatest natural resource, any solution that waste management offers can only be realised through the corporate efforts of members of households, communities, industries and the government.

• 1 INTRODUCTION

• 2 TOTAL RECYCLING ‘MULTI-F’ SORTING

• 3 STEPS TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION

• 4 EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION

• 5 CONCLUSIONS

• 6 REFERENCES