Abstract
Official Journal of the Institute of Environmental Professionals Sri Lanka. Full text articles available. The journal publishes original research and review articles on environmental studies relevant to Sri Lanka and other tropical regions. The scope of the Journal encompasses the diversity of current research on broad categories of environmental science.
Highlights
The generation of different types of waste in various places such as industries, institutions, residences, is common in the world
Major components of municipal solid waste in Sri Lanka are organics in nature which include food waste and garden wastes and they are degradable in nature (Visvanathan, 2006 and Perera, 2003)
It was found that the faculty administration has taken several steps to enhance the waste management in the faculty; further commitment of the administration is required for the proper waste disposal in the faculty
Summary
The generation of different types of waste in various places such as industries, institutions, residences, is common in the world. In Sri Lanka, waste collection and disposal has become a serious problem in recent years. People are more likely to live in urban areas, so, every day waste generation is increasing. More efforts have to be taken to tackle the waste disposal problem. Wastes in urban areas (garbage) are composed of various matters such as degradable organics (plant and animal matters), non degradable organics (plastics, polythene), various metals, glasses, rubber materials, textiles and papers. At the same time these different wastes comes from various places such as institutions (government or private owned), factories, residences, etc
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