2. What are Wastes?
The actual definition varies from country to
country
• Most legal definitions of waste can be
summarized as a product or a substance that is
no longer suited for its intended use
3. What is waste management ?
• Waste management is the “generation,
prevention, characterization, monitoring,
treatment, handling, reuse and residual
disposition of solid wastes”
4. Explanation by example
•We are going to explain properties of waste & its
management by taking an example.
• Assume we found a plastic bag in an dump yard
weighted nearly half a ton and lets see what is in it...
• As weight is concerned it only earns few pennies in
cash as it totally became dump and of no use.
5. Things we found
•Firstly, items like glass bottles aluminium sheets etc.,
which are actually can washed and capped properly
so it can REUSED properly so reduction of waste
from bin,
• This process is named as REUSE
6. Things we found
• Secondly we found that items like broken glasses
,metals , clothes and electronic parts which cannot be
reused so they want to be modified and produced
new product
•This process is called RECYCLE
7. Things we found
•Thirdly, we found the items like food ,used cooking oil,
wooden blocks, paper, smelly stuff like contaminated food
which is neither reused nor recycled.
•So, it is used to conversion of non-recyclable waste materials
into usable heat, electricity named ENERGY RECOVERY
8. Things we found
•Why generate waste in huge amounts?
• We can use of optimum utilization of minimum resources,
like reading paper in online, reduction of paper waste , with
technology as a substitute.
• This is REDUCTION of waste from resources
9. Things we found
•Few things that are neither decomposable nor reusable, in
any manner should be handled separately.
• They consist of hazardous elements and hence should be
decomposed safely.
•HAZARDOUS : Substances unsafe to use that are shipped,
transported to or brought from the country of origin for dumping
or disposal.
10. WASTE HIERARCHY
• Three R’s for management of
waste:
•REDUCE
•REUSE
•RECYCLE &
•ENERGY RECOVERY
11. Scopes in managements
•We find better scopes by looking at the
process
-The first thing we can get division in this
process.
-The second thing is work job employment.
13. Investment
•By using the waste hierarchy management method
we should give some investment to reproduce.
•But results on investment is useful by getting
resources which of maximum utilization
•And the pollution quantity is less than fuel and coal
utilization.
•This type of energy from waste is named as Green
power.
14. Process of reduction in European countries
•Biological reprocessing
•Energy recovery
•Resources recovery
•Avoidance & reduction methods
•Pyrolysis
•Waste handling & transport
15. Waste handling system
•Vacuum collection
•Curb side collection
•Pyrolysis
•Taxes on irresponsibility
•Separation from home level
•Unsegregated waste
•Targets and goals(zero waste in 2020)
16. International waste movement
•Basel Convention.
•Located at Basel, Switzerland.
•Reduction of hazardous waste & radioactive waste.
•Assist LDCs in sound management of wastes they
generate
•The Convention was opened for signature on 22
March 1989
•Entered into force on 5 May 1992.
•As of January 2015, 182 states and the European
Union are parties to the Convention.
20. Central principles of waste management
•Waste hierarchy
•Life-cycle of a Product
•Resource efficiency
•Polluter pays principle
21. Waste Generation by Country
(Global Waste Survey Final Report Published by IMO 1995)*
Countries Amount /year
Japan 395 M tonnes/year
Germany 104 M tonnes/year
Netherlands 6.1 M tonnes/year
Hungary 102 M tonnes/year
Poland 130 M tonnes/year
Romania 607 M tonnes/year
Bahrain 92,000 tonnes/year
China 6 B tonnes/year
India 112 M tonnes/year
*from primary and secondary industry sectors
23. Conclusion
•Issue needs governmental attention
•Generate waste are too dangerous right now.
•Little awareness should exists amongst the
people.
•Crucial to educate people and convince for
adoption of Waste Hierarchy
24. Awareness
Congrats by knowing the consequences,
reasons and by implementation we
reduces 75% waste.
WASTING YOUR WASTE IS
SUCH A WASTE.