Solid Waste Management – A Case Study in Puducherry

Abstract

In modern era the technological improvement, urbanization, migration and huge population have increased the waste generation. Increasing population will leads to lack of infrastructure facility like water sanitation, sewage and solid waste management. People are not properly disposing their waste into the common waste bin as well as bins are not sufficient with the increasing population level. Due to improper disposal of solid waste, it ultimately reached into sewage channels and ends with blockage of sewage channels. It leads to cause more environmental and health issues. Improper waste management in the landfill of Puducherry district cause more heat in the landfill as well as increase in the leachate generation and it will leads to the contamination of soil and ground water quality. This paper focused on health and environmental issues owing to improper disposal solid waste and its management practised.