How to Deal with Our Solid Waste

Executive Summary In recent years, it became clear that household waste and industrial waste are becoming a big problem of waste disposal. Until now, the provincial government relied entirely on the landfill to abandon garbage. Considering economic growth and consumption patterns, waste generated in homes and factories has increased significantly. Depends on the government's landfill site is saturated because the waste generated exceeds expected. Due to public protests, it is difficult to acquire new landfill sites.

Before introducing solid waste management, let's explain the material being managed - solid waste. Solid waste refers to a series of wastes generated by animal and human activities and discarded as unnecessary and useless. Solid waste arises from industrial, residential and commercial activities in specific areas and can be disposed of in various ways. Therefore, reclaimed land is often classified as sanitation, municipality, construction and dismantling or place of industrial waste.

Solid waste is defined as any form that is dry and discarded by people as unnecessary waste. Solid waste from general housekeeper can be explained as residential garbage, home garbage, or home garbage. Waste generated in other areas is defined as industrial waste, commercial waste, in-facility waste, agricultural waste, or street scrubbing depending on its source. In urban environments, municipal waste refers to solid waste collected by local governments (local governments) and may include household, commercial, industrial waste and street scavenging. Solid waste generated as a result of cooking food, or food left after eating is called kitchen garbage or garbage.

The composition of municipal solid waste greatly varies depending on the development of waste agriculture. The waste stream consists mainly of non-recyclable packaging materials, mainly solids and other solid waste from the residential, commercial, facility and industrial sectors. Urban solid waste does not include agriculture, medical treatment, radioactive waste and sewage sludge. Residual waste is a waste generated from households that contains substances that have not been separated from the source but are not treated and are mainly classified as the following types of biodegradable substances. Equipment, hazardous, toxic, medical waste, composite waste such as tetra-packaging, waste plastics such as toys

According to RCRA, no substance can become hazardous waste unless it is solid waste. Solid waste may contain one or more of the listed hazardous wastes or may include one or more characteristics (flammable, corrosive, reactive or toxic) of hazardous waste If it has, it is hazardous waste. . When waste classified as hazardous waste is mixed with non-hazardous waste or material, the mixture must be managed as hazardous waste. However, as long as it has dangerous nature, characteristic waste is still dangerous.