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APPROACHES TO SOLID
WASTE MANAGEMENT

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Early Waste Disposal
It was not until 320BC in Athens that the first known law forbidding this practise was
established.
A system for waste removal was began to evolve in Greece.
In Rome, property owners were responsible for cleaning the streets.
Disposal methods were crude,envolving open spits on city walls.

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Developments in Waste Management

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What is Solid Waste Management?
Solid waste management is the
Collection
Transportation
Processing
Or
Disposal of solid waste material usually
once produced by human activity, in an
effort to reduce their effect on human
health,
Or
Local aesthetic and environment.

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Elements of Solid Waste Management

Generation Storage Transport Transfer

Processing Recovery Disposal

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Approaches for Solid Waste Management
Reduce

Plasma
Reuse
gasification

Approaches
Waste
buried in Recycling
landfills

Biological
Waste
waste
recovery
treatment

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Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM)
ISWM puts more focus on 4 Rs approach i.e. reduce, reuse, recycle, recover instead of existing
3Rs approach i.e. reduce, reuse, recycle of waste management.

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