H.R.H.THE P.O.W.I.E.T.

JORHAT (ASSAM)

SEMINAR PRESENTATION ON SOLID WASTE

MANAGEMENT

PRESENTED BY GUIDED BY
HRISHIKESH SHARMA A.K. BORA
6TH SEMESTER
CIVIL ENGINEERING
LECTURER
DEPARTMENT CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
ROLL NO:POW/14/CV/027
 INTRODUCTION

Waste management
is the collection,
transportation,
processing, recycling
or disposal of waste
materials. The term
usually relates to
materials produced
by human activity
and is generally
undertaken to reduce
Solid Waste
Solid wastes
are any
discarded
(abandoned or
considered
waste-like)
materials. Solid
wastes can be
solid, liquid,
semi-solid or
TYPES OF SOLID
WASTE
Municipal waste
(Household
waste),
Hazardous waste
(Industrial )
Hospital waste
(Biomedical
waste).
STEPS INVOLVED
IN SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT

Collection of
solid wastes.
Disposal of
solid wastes.
Waste
utilisation.
A.COLLECTION OF
SOLID WASTES
1.Community storage
point
2.Kerbside
collection
3. Block collection
 B.DISPOSAL OF
SOLID WASTES
1.Open dumping
2. Sanitary land
filling
3. Incineration
4. Composting
a. Anaerobic
b. Aerobic
 C. WASTE
UTILISATION
Resource recovery
or waste utilisation
is achieved by
three techniques .
(a)Reuse,
(b)Reclamation,
(c)Recycling.
Examples of waste
utilisation
Refilling of used cold
drinks bottles.
Jute waste are utilised
for making good quality
paper, box-boards and
hard boards.
Sugarcane wastes are
utilised for production
of electricity, paper
boards etc.
Scrap glass is used in
production of new
glass.
 TECHNOLOGY
Thermal
technologies like
gasification,
pyrolysis, thermal
depolymerization,
plasma are
gasification and non
thermal
technologies like
anaerobic digestion,
fermentation, etc.
are a number of new
CONCLUSION
Solid waste is
hazardous to
health so it has
to be handled
carefully and
disposed
properly in
order to protect
our health and
to maintain