My previous question actually gives a way to imbibe a good culture on waste disposal by man. From the responses so far, it shows that attitude has an impact on waste disposal methods, then what will be the effective ways of managing waste disposal.
While the public considers the disposal of society’s waste a significant environmental concern, it is not an issue at the forefront of their minds. The transient nature in which it is considered appears insufficient to establish and maintain habitual patterns of recycling and waste management.
There is potential to increase the salience of waste issues through association with other environmental issues:
- linking waste with global issues such as climate change, which is an issue that people appear particularly aware of and concerned about. The challenge is to successfully make the association between people’s waste disposal behavior and global concerns in the same way as they have linked climate change to car use and local flooding;
- linking waste to local issues, including street cleaning, litter and the wider ‘livability’ of the local area. These are all currently high on the public’s agenda, and there are clear associations between ‘rubbish’ in the home and ‘litter’ in the streets and between the aesthetics of the street environment and the visual impact of recycling and waste management sites.
Now coming towards the best available techniques for waste management. The best available techniques are different for different graphical locations, waste composition, population, urban patterns, technologies available and etc. Keeping in view the current human behavior towards waste management a researcher can look for the best methods by life cycle cost benefit analysis, social life cycle assessment and environmental life cycle assessment and mean while if the right measures are taken to improve the attitude of the people then destination can be reached.
Agree with Chaudhary... waste disposal is a global problem, but requires localized solutions..
We need to educate the public that "Nothing is waste".. many so-called 'waste products' can be efficiently & safely recycled..
Once the general public are educated enough about the concept of "NOTHING IS WASTE" this world can be a better place.
Also, we need tougher laws... for example Singapore has pretty tough(almost draconian) laws on littering/disposal of garbage... consequently, the litter on the streets is almost NIL...
Wast disposal mechanism should be designed with community participation and implemented by the community based organisation.
You can refer one of my data set uploaded in RG regarding Cash for Work implementation with the help of community
In most societies people have been conditioned to disposing of waste as cheaply as possible. The impact on society is not the primary consideration in the disposal of the waste. I would suggest taking a different approach. Utilize the waste to societies benefit. By making waste valuable, the problem changes in direction from "how does one get rid of it" to "how do I get More of it". Now private investment money is brought to bear on a public problem. My firm has developed a technology that rapidly converts organic waste into chemicals used in industry and agriculture today. This is a biological process that has worked for millions of years. Anyone interested in learning more about the technology can contact me at [email protected] and I will send two publications on the technology.
If people find money from waste means they cooperate with the government. Like door to door collection of plastics, metal wastes,etc. spot paying money for it that means people seriously handle the waste instead of illegal dumping because of the benefit got from it. Government in developing countries has to develop some organization to monitor the waste strategy in micro level otherwise it may leads to serious environemental threat to the future generation. People wont co operate without their benefit or stirct regulation formed by the government.
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