International Journal of Waste Resources

An Integrated Approach to Operate Solid Waste

Willson Roger^* Department of Material Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
^*Correspondence: Willson Roger, Department of Material Sciences, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Email:

Received: 01-Feb-2022, Manuscript No. IJWR-22-15894; Editor assigned: 03-Feb-2022, Pre QC No. IJWR-22-15894(PQ); Reviewed: 17-Feb-2022, QC No. IJWR-22-15894; Revised: 21-Feb-2022, Manuscript No. ACE-22-15894(R); Published: 28-Feb-2022, DOI: 10.35248/2252-5211.22.12.452

Brief Note

Solid waste Operation is an essential service in any society. Before introducing the process, still, let's start with a discussion of the material being managed called solid waste.

Solid waste refers to the range of scrap accoutrements that are arising from animal and human activities that are discarded as unwanted and useless. Solid waste is generated from industrial, domestic, and commercial activities in a given area, and may be handled in a variety of ways. As similar, landfills are usually classified as sanitary, municipal, construction and demolition, or industrial waste sites.

Waste can be distributed based on material, similar as plastic, paper, glass, metal, and organic waste. Categorization may also be based on hazard potential, including radioactive, ignitable, infectious, toxic, or non-toxic wastes. Categories may also pertain to the origin of the waste, whether industrial, domestic, commercial, institutional, or construction and demolition.

Whatever of the origin, content, or hazard potential, solid waste must be managed thoroughly to ensure environmental elegant practices. As solid waste operation is a critical aspect of environmental hygiene, it must be incorporated into environmental planning.

North American waste generation key insights

The North American region generates the upmost average amount of waste per capita, at 2.21 kilograms per day, or 4.87 pounds per day. Total waste produced in 2016 was 289 million tons, or 318.7 tons.

Waste collection content in North America is nearly universal, at 99.7 kilograms. Bermuda represents the only gap in content, more than 55 of waste in North America comprise recyclables, including paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, and glass. Just over half of the waste in North America is disposed of at sanitary landfills, while one-third is recovered.

Solid waste management

Solid waste operation is defined as the discipline associated with control of generation, storage, collection, transport or transfer, processing and disposal of solid waste materials in a way that best addresses the range of public health, conservation, profitable, aesthetic, engineering, and other environmental considerations.

In its scope, solid waste operation includes planning, administrative, financial, engineering, and legal functions. Results might include complex inter-disciplinary relations among fields similar as public health, city and indigenous planning, political science, terrain, sociology, economics, communication and conservation, demography, engineering, and material ores.

Solid waste operation practices can differ for domestic and industrial producers, for civic and rural areas, and for developed and developing nations. The administration of non-hazardous waste in metropolitan areas is the job of local government authorities. On the other hand, the operation of dangerous waste materials is generally the responsibility of those who induce it, as subject to local, public, and indeed international authorities.

Objectives of waste management

The primary thing of solid waste management is reducing and shutting out adverse impacts of waste materials on human health and the environs to support economic development and superior quality of life. This is to be done in the most effective manner possible, to keep costs low and preclude waste buildup.

Functional elements of the waste management system

There are six functional factors of the waste management system, as outlined below

Waste generation: This encompasses any activities involved in relating materials that are no longer usable and are moreover gathered for methodical disposal or thrown out.

Onsite handling, storage, and recycling: This relates to activities at the point of waste generation, which facilitate easier collection. For example, waste bins are placed at places that induce sufficient waste.

Waste collection: A critical phase of waste operation, this includes conditioning similar as placing waste collection bins, collecting waste from those bins, and accumulating trash in the position where the collection vehicles are voided. Although the collection phase involves transportation, this is generally not the main stage of waste transportation.

Waste transfer and transport: These are the activities involved in moving waste from the local waste collection locales to the indigenous waste disposal place in large waste transport vehicles.

Waste processing and recovery: This refers to the facilities, equipment, and methods employed to recover available or recyclable materials from the waste stream and to enhance the effectiveness of other functional elements of waste management.

Disposal of final stage of waste operation: It involves the activities aimed at the systematic disposal of waste materials in places similar as landfills or waste-to- energy facilities.

Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM)

As the field of solid waste management advances, results are being looked at more completely and holistically. ISWM, for illustration, is an increasingly important term in the field of waste management. It refers to the selection and use of applicable management programs, technologies, and ways to achieve particular waste operation objectives and aims. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that ISWM is composed of waste source reduction, recycling, waste combustion, and landfills. These activities can be done in either an interactive or hierarchical way.

In conclusion, it's important to stress that better solid waste management programs are urgently demanded in some countries. Only about half of the waste generated in towns and one-quarter of what's produced in rural areas is collected. Internationally, the World Bank warns that global waste could increase from 2016 to 2050 by 70% in a business-as-usual scenario. Ongoing works to enhance the waste management system are an important part of preserving a healthy human and ecological future.