3. The purpose of this presentation is to
elaborate and increase awareness on the
potential solid waste (hazardous and mixed
waste) disposal poses to the environment.
Waste treatment and disposal
Environment impacts of solid wastes
Preventive measures
4. Every day thousands of students buy food or
drinks from canteen, those food or dinks are
packed into different polythene bags,
disposable plastic cups or disposable plates.
Those polythene bag, plastic cups, plates are
disposed of into the garbage cans and then
into environment.
Those bags and disposable things are very
hazardous for environment and human life
5.
6. Polythene bags, plastic cups and plates are
not biodegradable.
They remain present in environment for long
period.
7. Solid waste extract from university is openly
dumped by waste management near
agriculture land adjacent to university
boundary.
8. Plastic bags don't biodegrade, breaking
down into smaller and smaller toxic bits,
contaminating soil and waterways and
entering the food web when animals
accidentally ingest them.
A plastic bag can take between 400 to 1,000
years to break down in the environment.
They also kill livestock.
Toxic substances reach down with rain
water cause ground water contamination.
9. Continue……
Plastic containers and coatings help keep food
fresh, but they can also leave behind
neurotoxins such as BPA (Bisphenol A) in the
human body.
Waste breaks down in landfills in the form of
small toxic bits to form methane, a potent
greenhouse gas
Littering, due to waste pollutions, illegal
dumping of wastes cause Leaching: is a process
by which solid waste enter soil and ground
water and contaminating them.
10. Plastic bags slowly release toxic chemicals
that has many effects on soil and crops.
11. Soil adsorption, soil absorb rain water with toxic
substances released from polythene bags.
Plant uptake, contaminated water uptake by
plants
Leaching
Insects, birds, rats, flies etc.
13. Incineration: Burning of hazardous waste.
Solidification: solid waste are melted or
evaporated to produce a sand like residue.
Heat treatment: Heat applied at moderate
temperature, is used in treating volatile
solvents.
Chemical treatment: is the application of
chemical treatment in the treatment of
corrosive solid.
14. Landfills: waste is placed into or onto the land
in disposal facilities.
Underground injection wells: waste are
injected under pressure into a steel and
concrete-encased shafts placed deep in the
earth.
Waste piles: is accumulations of insoluble
solid, non flowing hazard waste. Piles serves
as temporary or final disposal.
15. Land treatment: It is a process in which
solid waste, such as sludge from wastes is
applied onto or incorporated into the soil
surface.
16. Proper management of solid waste.
Involving students and workers in plans for
waste treatment and disposal.
Create awareness in students and canteen
staff.
Give suggestions on different ways of
handling waste.
Editor's Notes
It is important to develop a great system to effectively treat waste. Waste treatment is the process of changing; chemical, biological or physical characteristic of hazardous waste into nonhazardous, less hazardous or make it safer to transfer, or store or dispose.