Waste management or Waste disposal is all the activities and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes amongst other things, collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste together with monitoring and regulation. It also encompasses the legal and regulatory framework that relates to waste management encompassing guidance on recycling.
The term normally relates to all kinds of waste, whether generated during the extraction of raw materials, the processing of raw materials into intermediate and final products, the consumption of final products, or other human activities, including municipal (residential, institutional, commercial), agricultural, and social (health care, biomedical waste, household hazardous waste, sewage sludge). Waste management is intended to reduce adverse effects of waste on health, the environment or aesthetics.
The waste hierarchy refers to the reduce, reuse and recycle, which classify waste management strategies according to their desirability in terms of waste minimisation various technologies such as shredding, incineration, pyrolysis and secured land filling vide advance strategies shall adopted to manage or dispose based on the source, nature and characteristics of waste and also with respect to the regulatory requirements.
