Assignment 1 Sustainable Waste Management City Case Study Mysore, India & Massachusetts, USA Introduction: Growth in population and change in lifestyles has led to increase in waste generation. Municipal solid waste includes residential and commercial wastes generated in city areas in either solid or semi-solid form including bio-medical wastes. Safe and cost-e ective management of municipal solid waste is a signi cant social, environmental and health challenge for modern society. Indian cities alone generate more than 100 million tonnes of solid waste a year. It is estimated that up to 40% of municipal waste in India remains uncollected1. A large number of cities do not have any processing facilities which mean that the municipalities tend to haphazardly dump wastes all over the land lls. Lack of storage and collection facilities, segregation of waste of waste, pollution and contamination due to dumping of garbage on roads, open transportation in trucks, space constraints with land lls, social and environmental issues associated with land lls and lack of reusable and recyclables
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