Abstract
As the world’s population grows, so does the amount of waste generation and disposal. Ubiquitous presence of decaying waste heaps marks our environment, polluting and contaminating it. A clean and pollution free environment was no longer true and even the idea is old-fashioned as the trash has overwhelmed the rural-urban rift effectively. Solid waste prevention and management is a resident problem with universal consequences. In developing and under developed countries, the amount of solid wastes is expected to increase by threefold by 2050, thus it becomes necessary to minimize the waste generation in order to protect and prevent the environmental pollution, risks to humans’ health, and their livelihoods around the world. This chapter provides a concise overview of global solid waste generation and discusses various potential minimization and management strategies. The objectives, hierarchy in waste management, principles, Integrated solid waste management strategies, recycling, resource recovery, waste management guidelines are presented. Based on this current state of knowledge on prevention and minimization strategies, we can reduce the harmful exposure of soil waste to humans as wells as the environment.
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