Solid Waste Management in Madurai City : An Assessment

Authors

  • Dr. I. K. Manonmani  Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Keywords:

Urbanization , Floating Population, Solid Waste, Health And Environmental Problems, Madurai City.

Abstract

The haphazard urbanization and large floating population created acute problem of solid waste management in Madurai city.Solid waste management includes all activities that seek to minimize the health, environmental and aesthetic impacts of solid wastes. The solid waste management in Madurai has multiple processes from collection of waste to disposal. However, the waste management has been rather unsatisfactory in certain parts of the city. The study shows that’s 450 MT of solid waste in generated out of which only 360 MT is collected and processed. City core and north have high accumulation of waste disposal due to a multitude of reasons. Madurai city is one of the metropolitan cities and now it upgraded to smart city, hence it is recognized as an important aspect to study the solid waste disposal and management in Madurai metropolitan city.

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International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology

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2018-12-20

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Volume 4, Issue 11, November-December-2018

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Dr. I. K. Manonmani "Solid Waste Management in Madurai City : An Assessment" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011,Volume 4, Issue 11, pp.744-749, November-December-2018.