Solid waste comes from industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural, and community activities. It includes garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded materials. Improper management and disposal of solid waste can negatively impact human health, animals, aquatic life, and the environment. As populations and economies grow, more waste is produced which can pollute soil, water, and air if not handled properly. Common health issues from exposure to solid waste include chemical poisoning, increased risk of cancer and disease, and toxicity from heavy metals in contaminated food or water sources. The environment is also harmed through greenhouse gas emissions, destruction of habitats, and pollution of land, rivers, and oceans. Proper treatment and disposal methods like incineration, land

1. IMPACT OF SOLID WASTE ON HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

2. What is solid waste? Solid waste is defined as any garbage, refuse, sludge from waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other materials, including solid, liquid, semisolid, contained gaseous resulting from industrials, commercials, mining and agricultural operations from community activities

3. What is solid waste?

5. Ignitability: this is waste that can create fires under certain condition, e.g. waste oils and solvents

6. Reactive: these are unstable in nature, they cause explosions, toxic fumes when heated.

8. Hazardous waste: solvents acid, heavy metals, pesticides, and chemical sludges

9. Radioactive: high and low-level radioactive waste

12. Underground injection wells: waste are injected under pressure into a steel and concrete-encased shafts placed deep in the earth.

15. Increase in industrials manufacturing

16. Urbanization

17. Modernization

19. Contact with disease vectors

20. Inhalation

22. Plant uptake

23. Ventilation

24. Runoff

25. Leaching

26. Insects, birds, rats, flies and animals

28. Uncollected waste can obstruct the storm water runoff resulting in flood

29. Low birth weight

30. Cancer

31. Congenital malformations

32. Neurological disease

33. Nausea and vomiting

34. Increase in hospitalization of diabetic residents living near hazard waste sites.

36. Plastic found in oceans ingested by birds

37. Resulted in high algal population in rivers and sea.

39. Change in climate and destruction of ozone layer due to waste biodegradable

40. Littering, due to waste pollutions, illegal dumping, Leaching: is a process by which solid waste enter soil and ground water and contaminating them.