Question

How solid wastes can be used for benefits? State any six problems of related to slums in metropolitan cities of India?

Answer 1

• Solid waste management is the collection, transportation and processing or disposal of solid wastes usually produced by human activities in an effort to reduce their effect on human health.
• Solid waste management is essential to maintain cleanliness and environment quality.
• Solid wastes cause health hazard-through creation of obnoxious smell.
• These are act as carries of **** like typhoid, diptheria, diarrhoea, malaria and cholera etc.
• These wastes cause frequent nuisance as and when these are carelessly handled, spread by. wind and spilt erred through rain water.
• The dumping of industrial waste into rivers leads to water pollution.
• River Pollution from city-based industries and untreated sewages leads to serious health problems down streams.

Benefits : These wastes should be treated as resources and utilized for generating energy and compost.