Group 10-  Waste Management Strategies

Waste management or waste disposal are all the activities and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes among other things collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste together with monitoring and regulation. It also encompasses the legal and regulatory framework that relates to waste management encompassing guidance on recycling.

waste can take any form such as:

• Liquid
• Solid
• Gas

 Each form has different methods of disposal and management. Waste management normally deals with all types of waste whether it was created in forms that are industrial, biological, household, and special cases where it may pose a threat to human health. It is produced due to human activity such as when factories extract and process raw materials. Waste management is intended to reduce effects of waste on health,  aesthetics and environment.

It builds on and retains the core principles of the 2006 Strategy, and places a renewed emphasis on the Waste Hierarchy.

strategies:

• development of a waste prevention programmes.
• development of a new recycling target for local authority collected municipal waste
• introduction of a statutory requirement on waste operators to provide specified data on commercial and industrial waste
• new and more challenging collection and recycling targets for packaging and waste electrical and electronic equipment
• introduction of a landfill restriction on food waste
• implementation of legislation on carrier bags
• development of detailed proposals for an Environmental Better Regulation Bill
• minimizing or avoiding adverse impacts on the environment and human health.
• Allow economic development and improvement in the quality of life
• Conserve resources of water, energy, raw materials and nutrients
• Control pollution of land, air and water.
• Enhance business performance and maintain corporate social responsibility.
• Improve occupational health and safety.

Strategies of medical waste management

•         Development of awareness among the service provider by sensitization.
•          Proper capacity development of the service providers by providing training.
•          Development of in house management of waste.
•          Development and adoption of option for the final disposal of waste depending upon the situation, type of hospital, amount of waste production.  

Industrial waste management

Typical techniques :

•      Waste avoidance and minimization
•          Landfills
•          Incineration
•          Deep well injection 

Effective strategies

•     The 4 R’s strategy
•         Industrial symbiosis