The Present State of the Management on Municipal Solid Waste in India

Abstract

Objectives of this paper are to arrange;(1) the social situation, (2) the state of municipal solid waste (MSW) management, and (3) issues and improvements on MSW in India. We visited India to first hand execute the field survey and to collect the data relating to the state of MSW management. As a result of the survey, it was suggested that;(1) the urban environment was threatened by insufficiently managed MSW, (2) in order to autonomically improve the present state, some matters, e.g. management of the labor and of the operation of collection and/or sweeping, as well as installation of a weigh bridge, seemed to be very important, and (3) to gather and compile the data on MSW management would be the most essential task for them. In addition, some new financial resources such as user charge or tipping fee should be introduced for improvement of the present state.