2. INTRODUCTION Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal, and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics. Waste management is also carried out to recover resourcesfrom it.
3. METHODS OF DISPOSAL Landfill Main article: Landfill Disposing of waste in a landfill involves burying the waste, and this remains a common practice in most countries.
4. Recycling Main article: Recycling Steel scrap, sorted and baled for recycling. The popular meaning of ‘recycling’ in most developed countries refers to the widespread collection and reuse of everyday waste materials such as empty beverage containers.
5. EDUCATION AND AWARENESS Education and awarenessin the area of waste and waste management is increasingly important from a global perspective of resource management.
6. CONCLUSION Waste management is one way to involve solid, liquid, gaseous or radioactive substances with different methods and fields of expertise for each.
7. REFERENCE ^ "What is Waste Management?". 2009. http://www.wanless.com.au/what_is_waste_management.html. ^ Alliance Federated Energy | What Is Plasma Gasification ^ Alliance Federated Energy | Why Plasma Gasification ^ Life Cycle Environmental Assessment of Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Technologies
